BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Debut for world's fastest camera

BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Debut for world's fastest camera: "The fastest imaging system ever devised has been demonstrated by researchers reporting in the journal Nature.

Their camera's 'shutter speed' is just a half a billionth of a second, and it can capture over six million images in a second continuously.

Its 'flashbulb' is a fast laser pulse dispersed in space and then stretched in time and detected electronically.

The approach will be instrumental in imaging fast-moving or random events, such as communication between neurons.

What is more, the camera works with just one detector, rather than the millions in a typical digital camera."