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Published online 29 April 2009 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news.2009.412
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World's fastest camera
Speedy snapshots captured using laser light.
A team of physicists has built the world's fastest camera using off-the-shelf electronics from the fibre-optics industry.
The camera technique, known as serial time-encoded amplified microscopy (STEAM), can take an image every 163 nanoseconds — a rate roughly six times as fast as the best digital video cameras on the market.
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