The Nth-order Darboux transformation,vector dark solitons and breathers for the coupled defocusing Hirota system in a birefringent nonlinear fiber

Under investigation in this paper is the coupled defocusing Hirota system, which describes the propagation of ultra-short pulses in a birefringent nonlinear fiber. With respect to the amplitudes of the pulse envelopes, we construct the Nth-order Darboux transformation, which is different from those in the existing literatures, where N is a positive integer. The first- and second-order solutions are obtained via the Darboux transformation. Pulse envelopes including the gray-gray/antidark-gray/dark-bright solitons, vector Akhmediev breathers, temporal cavity solitons and (time, space)-periodic breathers are acquired. As the relative width of the spectrum that arises due to the quasi monochromocity decreases, we find that: the velocity and width of the dark-bright solitons increase; the width of the temporal cavity soliton decreases; the temporal period of the vector (time, space)-periodic breather becomes longer while its spacial period becomes shorter. Relative width of the spectrum that arises due to the quasi monochromocity does not affect the amplitudes of the pulse envelopes obtained. Elastic interactions between the breathers and solitons, and inelastic interactions between the two gray-gray solitons are obtained.