“…The performance of the waveguides fabricated by ultrafast laser inscription depends on the ultrafast laser pulse (wavelength, pulse energy, pulse duration, repetition rate, and polarization) and on processing conditions (scan speed, focal depth, and irradiation geometry), as well as on the material response (substrate material properties) [3]. This technique has been successfully applied to fabricating channel waveguide devices in a wide variety of transparent materials, including glasses, crystals, ceramics, and polymers [4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13].…”