Entry Date:
January 20, 2012

Trillion Frames Per Second Camera

Principal Investigator Ramesh Raskar

Co-investigator Moungi Bawendi


We have developed a camera that captures movies at an effective capture rate of a trillion frames per second. In one frame of our movie, light moves only about 0.6 mm. We can observe pulses of light as they propagate through a scene. We use this information to understand how images are composed and to learn things about a scene that are invisible to a regular camera.