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Sweden has developed a camera that can film at a rate equivalent to five trillion images per second a by research group at Lund University. The new super-fast film camera will therefore be able to capture events as short as 0.2 trillionths of a second and incredibly film the process cycles in chemistry, physics, biology and biomedicine.

The researchers call the technology FRAME (Frequency Recognition Algorithm for Multiple Exposures). Currently, high-speed cameras capture images one by one in a sequence. The new technology is based on an innovative algorithm, and instead captures several coded images in one picture. It then sorts them into a video sequence afterwards. Researchers have tested the technology by a light collection of photons travels a distance it only takes a picosecond corresponding to the thickness of a paper but on film the process has been slowed down by a trillion times.

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A regular camera with a flash uses regular light, but in this case the researchers use "coded" light flashes, as a form of encryption. Every time a coded light flash hits the object for example, a chemical reaction in a burning flame the object emits an image signal with the exact same coding. The following light flashes all have different codes, and the image signals are captured in one single photograph. These coded image signals are subsequently separated using an encryption key on the computer.

The method involves exposing what you are filming to light in the form of laser flashes where each light pulse is given a unique code. The object reflects the light flashes which merge into the single photograph. They are subsequently separated using an encryption key. Researchers have invented to observe the extremely rapid processes that occur in nature. Many take place on a picosecond and femtosecond scale, which is unbelievably fast the number of femtoseconds in one second is significantly larger than the number of seconds in a person's life-time.

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 Explosions, plasma flashes, turbulent combustion, brain activity in animals and chemical reactions. We are now able to film such extremely short processes," says Elias Kristensson.

 A German company has already developed a prototype of the technology, which means that within an estimated two years more people will be able to use it.