The behaviour of strongly coupled optical and excitonic states has been obs
erved experimentally in microcavities containing organic semiconductors. Do
e to the asymmetry of the exciton absorption, modifications to existing mod
els are necessary. Presented here are revised linear dispersion and quantum
mechanical models, which are used to verify the observed phenomena. (C) 20
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