World's Fastest Camera Captures 156.3 Trillion Frames per Second

Researchers at INRS in Quebec develop SCARF, a groundbreaking camera that revolutionizes ultrafast imaging across various scientific fields.

SCARF, short for swept-coded aperture real-time femtophotography, achieves an unprecedented 156.3 trillion frames per second, enabling the observation of phenomena occurring in femtoseconds.
The camera's innovative imaging modality allows for full-sequence encoding rates of up to 156.3 THz to individual pixels, capturing ultrafast events in a single shot.
Developed using off-the-shelf and passive optical components, SCARF is described as low-cost, low power consumption, and high measurement quality.
The technology opens new frontiers in fields such as biology, chemistry, materials science, physics, and engineering, particularly in studying non-repeatable or hard-to-reproduce phenomena.
Two companies, Axis Photonique and Few-Cycle, are collaborating with the researchers to bring SCARF to market, indicating potential commercial applications beyond research.