STAMP-Based Camera Shoots 4 Trillion Frames per Second

erco

Sorry, did you think that was a BASIC Stamp?

STAMP =Sequentially Timed All-optical Mapping Photography

http://blogs.naturalnews.com/stamp-camera-captures-trillions-images-per-second/

Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi)

Hugely interesting camera! Horribly-written article. Anyone have links to actual clips taken with this behemoth?

-Phil

erco

You asked, Pal, I just Googled...

http://www.engadget.com/2014/08/12/stamp-camera-chemical-reactions/

The principle of this method -- 'motion picture femtophotography' -- is all-optical mapping of the target's time-varying spatial profile onto a burst stream of sequentially timed photographs with spatial and temporal dispersion.

GordonMcComb

Don't think there are any actual photos in that video.

The article describing the camera is in the current online version of Nature magazine. Costs to read the full, but the figures are online:

http://www.nature.com/nphoton/journal/vaop/ncurrent/fig_tab/nphoton.2014.163_F1.html

There's a short sequence in Figures 3 and 4.

Ron Czapala

I thought this seemed familiar http://forums.parallax.com/showthread.php/136678-Camera-trillion-frames-per-second?p=1059889&viewfull=1#post1059889

MIT was working on this back in 2011

Here is a link to their project web site: http://web.media.mit.edu/~raskar//trillionfps/

We have built an imaging solution that allows us to visualize propagation of light. The effective exposure time of each frame is two trillionths of a second and the resultant visualization depicts the movement of light at roughly half a trillion frames per second. Direct recording of reflected or scattered light at such a frame rate with sufficient brightness is nearly impossible. We use an indirect 'stroboscopic' method that records millions of repeated measurements by careful scanning in time and viewpoints. Then we rearrange the data to create a 'movie' of a nanosecond long event.