In the late 80's, Ou and Mandel experimentally observed signal beatings by performing a non-time resolved coincidence detection of two photons having interfered in a balanced beam splitter [Phys. Rev. Lett 61, 54 (1988)]. In this work, we provide a new interpretation of the fringe pattern observed in this experiment as the direct measurement of the chronocyclic Wigner distribution of a frequency Schr\"odinger cat-like state produced by local spectral filtering. Based on this analysis, we also study time-resolved HOM experiment to measure such frequency state.
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@article{arxiv.2003.11486,
title = {Producing delocalized frequency-time Schr\"odinger cat-like states with HOM interferometry},
author = {N. Fabre and J. Belhassen and A. Minneci and S. Felicetti and A. Keller and M. I. Amanti and F. Baboux and T. Coudreau and S. Ducci and P. Milman},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2003.11486},
year = {2020}
}