New Delhi: A young scientist from Azamgarh in Uttar Pradesh is now part of a team at NASA, called Caltech that has invented the world’s fastest laser sheet imaging technology.
The invention can be quite pioneering as it can help in the study of nanoparticles in flames.
Yogeshwar Nath Mishra's father, who was a farmer, made a lot of sacrifices helping him achieve his dream, The Indian Express reported.
Growing up, Mishra was fascinated by science before being inspired by aerospace scientist and former President APJ Abdul Kalam.
Mishra, who is a scientist at NASA-Jet Propulsion Laboratory at Caltech, said that regular cameras have 30 frames per second to capture images.
The team he is part of made 12.5 billion frames per second, pulling off a huge achievement.
Mishra whose research appeared in journal Nature Light Science & Application said that modern ultra-fast cameras limited to million frames per second.
The team has added innovation combining compressed sensing with streak camera technology.
“One can only see the light’s origin and where it goes, however, its movement in real-time is impossible to trace. But this camera lets you see light in action. Essentially how light travels in a material or a medium. And all this is possible, because of the 12.5 billion frames per second capability,” he was quoted as saying.
Mishra, whose research areas include laser spectroscopy, light-matter interaction, and sustainable technologies, said science as a career is not attracting youths in India.
He cited an example of seeing just one Indian scientist at Lund University in Sweden where there were five research fellows from China.