Light intensification effect of trailing indent crack in fused silica subsurface

A finite-difference time-domain algorithm was applied to solve Maxwell＇s equations to obtain the redistribution of an electro- magnetic plane wave in the vicinity of a trailing indent crack （TIC）. The roles of five geometrical parameters playing in light intensification were calculated numerically under the irradiation of a 355-nm normal incidence laser. The results show that the light intensity enhancements between the nearest neighbor pits were remarkable, which may lead to damage, The calculated results reveal that the light intensity enhancement factor （LIEF） can be up to 11.2 when TIC is on the rear-surface. With the increase of the length as well as the depth of pits, LIEF increased. Conversely, with the increase of the axis of pits, LIEF grad- ually declined to a stable status. It was observed that there exists an optima width or gap, which enables LIEF to be increased dramatically and then decreased gently. By comparison, results suggest that the worst cases occur when the depth and the length are both very large, especially if the width equals to 22 and the gap equals the width. This work provides a recom- mended theoretical criterion for defect inspection and classification.