Chirp structure measurement of a supercontinuum pulse based on transient lens effect in tellurite glass

We demonstrated the controllable acquisition of optical gated spectra from a chirped supercontinuum (SC) pulse based on ultrafast transient lens (TrL) effect. Comparing with CS2, the gated spectra had much narrower spectral bandwidths using tellurite glass (Te glass) as the nonlinear medium due to its ultrafast nonlinear response. Experimental results showed that the chirp structure of the SC pulse measured by TrL method was quite accordant with that measured by femtosecond optical Kerr gate method. (C) 2013 American Institute of Physics. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4795587]