Abstract

Cavity solitons show interesting spontaneous drift and interaction dynamics. Although the dynamics of cavity solitons has huge potential for the fabrication of a soliton force microscope, none has been reported so far. In this paper, we identify a major challenge that limits the realization of a cavity soliton-based soliton force microscope. Three major classes of models comprising a vertical cavity surface emitting laser, a frequency-selective feedback, and different combinations of conventional, graphene, and graphene flake saturable absorbers are employed only to reveal that, although the cavity soliton dynamics is sensitive to the variation of system parameters and phase, they show no specific trend. This lack of “trend” might keep cavity soliton dynamics from being calibrated properly and eventually limit its possibility for use in a scanning device.

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