Matching group velocity of bright and/or dark solitons via double-dark resonances

Highlights: • The linear absorption properties can be controlled by the controlling fields. • Matching group velocity of the solitons can be realized when the half Rabi frequencies of controlling fields are equal. • The amplitude and group velocity of the solitons can be controlled by the intensity of the controlling fields. • The bright–dark soliton conversion can be achieved by varying the intensity of the controlling fields. - Abstract: We propose a scheme which can generate group velocity matching bright and/or dark solitons in a four-level tripod configuration atomic system via double-dark resonances. It is shown that the linear absorption properties can be controlled by the controlling fields. For the nonlinear case, the optical soliton can form in the first and second electromagnetically induced transparency windows and their group velocities can be matched under the condition of equal half Rabi frequencies of the two controlling fields. We also show that adjusting the amplitude and group velocity of the soliton as well as the bright and dark solitons conversion can be realized.