  We report an ARPES investigation of the circular dichroism in the first
Brillouin zone (BZ) of under- and overdoped Pb-Bi2212 samples. We show that the
dichroism has opposite signs for bonding and antibonding components of the
bilayer-split CuO-band and is antisymmetric with respect to reflections in both
mirror planes parallel to the c-axis. Using this property of the energy and
momentum intensity distributions we prove the existence of the bilayer
splitting in the normal state of the underdoped compound and compare its value
with the splitting in overdoped sample. In agreement with previous studies the
magnitude of the interlayer coupling does not depend significantly on doping.
We also discuss possible origins of the observed dichroism.
