Generation of optical ‘Schrödinger cats’ from photon number states

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Hybrid discrete- and continuous-variable quantum information (2014, background): “Complex quantum states can alternatively be created by a different probabilistic hybrid technique, namely conditional homodyne detection on already prepared non-Gaussian states [51, 52], see Fig.”
Preparation of non-local superpositions of quasi-classical light states (2009, background): “It can be increased by using larger initial cat states |c+〉1,2, which can be generated with the same experimental tools [5, 6].”
Toward quantum superposition of living organisms (2009, background): “[30] Ourjoumtsev A.”
Nobel Lecture: Controlling photons in a box and exploring the quantum to classical boundary (2013, background): “Schrödinger cat states of light presenting many similarities with our cavity QED cats have also been generated in quantum optics experiments (Ourjoumtsev et al., 2007).”