by localized laser-assisted thermal oxidation using a 532 nm continuous wave laser focused
to a 2.5 μm radius spot-size. The total shift is consistent with the parabolic rate law. A tuning
range of up to 8.7 nm is achieved with∼ 30 mW laser powers. Over this tuning range, the
cavity Qs decreases from 3.2× 10^ 5 to 1.2× 10^ 5. Numerical simulations model the
temperature distributions in the silicon photonic crystal membrane and the cavity resonance …