Abstract
We have developed a convenient method of measuring the temporal chirp structure of white-light continuum pulses used in femtosecond time-resolved absorption spectroscopy. This method, based on the nonresonant optical Kerr effect, is superior in many respects to the existing one that uses the sum or difference frequency generation by a nonlinear crystal.
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