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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“Why inspire in us a horror of our being?... To look upon the universe as a prison cell and all men as criminals about to be executed is the idea of a fanatic.”
—Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (1694–1778)
“The rays which stream through the shutter will be no longer remembered when the shutter is wholly removed.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)