Convenient Method of Measuring the Chirp Structure of Femtosecond White-Light Continuum Pulses
- 1 October 1995
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Applied Spectroscopy
- Vol. 49 (10), 1513-1515
- https://doi.org/10.1366/0003702953965434
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.Keywords
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