MIT researchers have created a new imaging system that can acquire visual data at a rate of one trillion exposures per second. That’s fast enough to produce a slow-motion video of a burst of light traveling the length of a one-liter bottle, bouncing off the cap and reflecting back to the bottle’s bottom.

Media Lab postdoc Andreas Velten, one of the system’s developers, calls it the “ultimate” in slow motion: “There’s nothing in the universe that looks fast to this camera,” he says.

Read the full article at the MIT News site.

Other recent coverage includes:

• MIT Researchers Capture the Speed of Light on Camera (TIME, 12/13/2011)
• MIT's trillion frames per second light-tracking camera (BBC, 12/13/2011)

Image Credit: 

M. Scott Brauer

Andreas Velten (L) and Ramesh Raskar with the experimental setup used to produce slow-motion video of light scattering through a bottle.