Solitons in the system of coupled Hirota–Maxwell–Bloch equations

We propose the system of coupled Hirota–Maxwell–Bloch equations which governs the propagation of optical pulses in an erbium doped nonlinear fibre with higher order dispersion, self-steepening and self induced transparency (SIT) effects. The Lax pair is explicitly constructed and the soliton solution is obtained using the Darboux–Bäcklund transformations. Hence, the system is found to admit soliton type lossless wave propagation.