Soliton solutions for the reduced Maxwell–Bloch system in nonlinear optics via the N-fold Darboux transformation

Abstract

Under investigation in this paper is the reduced Maxwell–Bloch system, which describes the propagation of the intense ultra-short optical pulses through a two-level dielectric medium. Through symbolic computation, conservation laws are derived and N-fold Darboux transformation (DT) is constructed for that system. By virtue of the DT obtained, multi-soliton solutions are generated. Figures are plotted to reveal the following dynamic features of the solitons: (1) Elastic interactions between two bright one-peak solitons, between two bight two-peak solitons and between two dark two-peak solitons; (2) Parallel propagations between two bright one-peak solitons, between two bright two-peak solitons and between two dark two-peak solitons; (3) Periodic propagations of hump solitons, of a pair of bound hump solitons with the same amplitude and of dark solitons.