This paper is dedicated to the study of optical soliton solutions for the perturbed Fokas–Lenells equation with conformable derivative using the Kudryashov auxiliary equation method. The studied optical solutions include a class of categories, comprising dark, mixed dark-bright, multi bell-shaped, bell-shaped, and wave optical solutions. Furthermore, we analyzed the magnitude of the perturbed conformable Fokas–Lenells equation by investigating the impact of the conformable parameter and the effect of the time parameter on the novel optical solutions. It can be claimed that the current optical soliton solutions are novel and have not existed in the literature. The results obtained illustrate that the proposed method is robust, efficient, and readily applicable for constructing new solutions to a wide range of nonlinear fractional partial differential equations. The results of this study are expected to shed light on the field of soliton theory in nonlinear optics and mathematical physics.