Propagation of nonclassical light through a semiconductor microcavity

We extend recently developed schemes for field quantization in absorbing di electric media with local susceptibilities to dielectric systems described by a nonlocal susceptibility, in order to quantize the electromagnetic fiel d in quantum wells embedded in planar semiconductor microcavities. As an ap plication of the formalism, we analyze the effects of the propagation throu gh a semiconductor microcavity on a continuous-mode squeezed coherent state . In particular, we calculate the variance of the field transmitted through the microcavity in the case of strong coupling regime for different detect ion schemes, as a function of the detuning, the exciton-photon coupling and the exciton homogeneous broadening.