World's Fastest Camera, UCLA
Researchers at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science have developed a novel, continuously running camera that captures images roughly a thousand times faster than any existing conventional camera. In a paper in the April 30 issue of Nature, post-doctoral scholar Keisuke Goda, graduate student Kevin Tsia and team leader Bahram Jalali, a professor of electrical engineering, describe an entirely new approach to imaging that does not require a traditional CCD (charge-coupled device) or CMOS (complementary metal-oxide semiconductor) video camera. Building on more than a decade of research on photonic time stretch, a technique for capturing elusive events, the team has demonstrated a camera that captures images at some 6 million frames per second. For more information, please visit: http://www.engineer.ucla.edu/news/200...