Abstract
This paper studies the dynamics of optical solitons with parabolic and dual-power law nonlinearities. The dark 1-soliton solution is first obtained by the ansatz method along with the necessary constraint conditions, for both of these nonlinearities. Subsequently, the invariance, conservation laws and double reductions of the governing nonlinear Schrodinger's equation are studied and the conserved densities are thus revealed. (C) 2014 Elsevier GmbH. All rights reserved.