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Here, we probe the two-dimensional electric field in a Schottky CdTe detector using the Pockels effect and report on its local perturbation after exposure to an optical beam at the anode electrode. Our electro-optical imaging setup, together with a custom processing routine, allows the extraction of the electric-field vector maps and their dynamics during a voltage bias-optical exposure sequence. The results are in agreement with numerical simulations, allowing us to confirm a two-level model based on a dominant deep level. Such a simple model is indeed able to fully account for both the temporal and spatial dynamics of the perturbed electric field. This approach thus allows a deeper understanding of the main mechanisms affecting the non-equilibrium electric-field distribution in CdTe Schottky detectors, such as those leading to polarization. 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