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Old 15-12-2011, 09:41 AM
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Femto Photography - trillion FPS imaging

This is a novel imaging technique from MIT that allows the capture and visualisation of light travelling through a scene in 'real time' captured at an effective rate of a trillion frames per second.

Individual photon packets and wave fronts are actually being captured with exposure times of around 2 pico seconds !

Examples of fruit being illuminated with a laser here and general explanation

http://web.media.mit.edu/~raskar/trillionfps/

However the technique is not straightforward (but simple to understand) and currently lends itself to static laboratory scenes.

So not so good for the astroimagers ! but amazing what technology and the human mind can achieve.

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