CLASSICAL-ANALYSIS OF A DISPERSIVE SYMMETRICAL FABRY-PEROT MICROCAVITY AND RABI SPLITTING IN A MONOLITHIC SEMICONDUCTOR HETEROSTRUCTURE

The conditions of splitting the reflectance, transmittance and absorpt ion spectra of a dispersive symmetric Fabry-Perot microcavity are stud ied on the basis of classical multibeam interference formula, The spec ial case of a monolithic semiconductor microcavity with quantum well e xcitons is studied in detail. The problem of resonant splitting of tra nsmittance in the case of a single dispersive quantum well is solved e xactly. A useful formalism including generalized time-invariance and w ell-suited for the analysis of composite stacks of absorbing dielectri cs, especially when substructures exhibit spatial symmetries, is treat ed in the Appendix.