A Kerr cell shutter is a type of photographic shutter used for very fast shutter speeds down to nanoseconds.
A Kerr cell utilises the Kerr effect to block or transmit light.
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“Women have no wilderness in them,
They are provident instead,
Content in the tight hot cell of their hearts
To eat dusty bread.”
—Louise Bogan (1897–1970)
“And there is nothing in the eye,
Shut shutter of the mineral man
Who takes the fatherless dark to bed,
The acid sky to the brain-pan;
And calls the crows to peck his head.”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)