Aug 152012
 

Holy crap! This has to be one of the most awesome things I’ve ever seen… photography so fast you can watch *light* move in slow motion! The equivalent of a *trillion* frames per second; the camera has a time resolution of 2 *picoseconds,* which is as long as it takes light to travel 0.6 *millimeters.*

[youtube Y_9vd4HWlVA]

Watching a pulse of light bouncing around inside a Coke bottle (2:57 to 3:28) is just plain remarkable.

In the eloquent words of a few of the YouTube commenters…

Femto-Photography: Visualizing Photons in Motion at a
Trillion Frames Per Second

 Posted by at 11:23 pm