sorry for missing words,it is AXIAL CROSS SECTION ,to be more specific ,let us first take fused silica,in a one 1 mm thick fused silica ,we have created a void (cavity) inside the material which is located at 50 micrometer depth from the front surface ,through tight focusing of femtosecond laser. now in order to view this cavity through SEM,we need to cleaved this material along axial cross section i.e to remove the front surface of material.
we need to avoid etching ,because we want to do surface analysis later