From CNET:
World's fastest 2D camera can capture 100 billion frames per second
A new camera developed by researchers at Washington University in St Louis may be just the thing to enable new discoveries about light. They're claiming it's the world's fastest 2D receive-only camera, able to capture images at a rate of up to 100 billion frames per second using a technique its creators call Compressed Ultrafast Photography.
Current receive-only cameras image at a speed of around 10 million frames per second, limited by on-chip storage and electronic readout speed.
"For the first time, humans can see light pulses on the fly," said study leader Lihong Wang, PhD, Gene K. Beare Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering.
"Because this technique advances the imaging frame rate by orders of magnitude, we now enter a new regime to open up new visions. Each new technique, especially one of a quantum leap forward, is always followed a number of new discoveries. It's our hope that CUP will enable new discoveries in science -- ones that we can't even anticipate yet."
I love the quote: "For the first time, humans can see light pulses on the fly"
The original paper is at Nature: Single-shot compressed ultrafast photography at one hundred billion frames per second