  We present a novel approach to single-shot characterization of the spectral
phase of broadband laser pulses. Our method is inexpensive, insensitive to
alignment and combines the simplicity and robustness of the dispersion scan
technique, that does not require spatio-temporal pulse overlap, with the
advantages of single-shot pulse characterization methods such as single-shot
frequency-resolved optical gating at a real-time reconstruction rate of several
Hz.
