Kerr cell camera

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• Kerr cell — noun optical device consisting of a transparent cell with two electrodes between two polarizing media; passes light only if the two planes of polarization are parallel; used as a high speed shutter or to modulate a laser beam • Hypernyms:… …   Useful english dictionary

• Kerr cell shutter — 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. See also *Kerr effect *Rapatronic cameraExternal links*… …   Wikipedia

• Kerr cell — /kahr, kerr/, Physics. a transparent cell filled with a fluid, usually nitrobenzene, and containing two electrodes placed between two polarizing light filters, suitable for demonstrating the Kerr effect and often used as a high speed camera… …   Universalium

• Kerr cell — /ˈkɜ sɛl/ (say ker sel) noun a cell, based on the electro optical Kerr effect, which is used as a high speed camera shutter …  

• Kerr effect — This article is about the Kerr nonlinear optical effect. For the magneto optic phenomenon of the same name, see magneto optic Kerr effect. The Kerr effect, also called the quadratic electro optic effect (QEO effect), is a change in the refractive …   Wikipedia

• Rapatronic camera — The rapatronic camera is a high speed camera capable of recording a still image with an exposure time as brief as 10 nanoseconds (billionths of a second).The camera was developed by Harold Edgerton in the 1940s and was first used to photograph… …   Wikipedia

• photography, technology of — Introduction       equipment, techniques, and processes used in the production of photographs.  The most widely used photographic process is the black and white negative–positive system (Figure 1 >). In the camera the lens projects an image of… …   Universalium

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