Integrability Aspects and Soliton Solutions for a System Describing Ultrashort Pulse Propagation in an Inhomogeneous Multi-Component Medium

For the propagation of the ultrashort pulses in an inhomogeneousmulti-component nonlinear medium, a system of coupled equations isanalytically studied in this paper. Painlevé analysis shows thatthis system admits the Painlevé property under some constraints.By means of the Ablowitz-Kaup-Newell-Segur procedure， the Lax pairof this system is derived, and the Darboux transformation (DT) isconstructed with the help of the obtained Lax pair. With symboliccomputation, the soliton solutions are obtained by virtue of the DTalgorithm. Figures are plotted to illustrate the dynamical featuresof the soliton solutions. Characteristics of the solitonspropagating in an inhomogeneous multi-component nonlinear medium arediscussed: (i) Propagation of one soliton and two-peak soliton; (ii) Elastic interactions of the parabolic two solitons; (iii) Overlapphenomenon between two solitons; (iv) Collision of two head-onsolitons and two head-on two-peak solitons; (v) Two different typesof interactions of the three solitons; (vi) Decomposition phenomenonof one soliton into two solitons. The results might be useful in thestudy on the ultrashort-pulse propagation in the inhomogeneousmulti-component nonlinear media.