Abstract
An integrable coherently coupled nonlinear Schrodinger system describing the propagation of polarised optical waves in an isotropic medium with a generalized 4 x 4 matrix Ablowitz-Kaup-Newell-Segur-type Lax pair is studied. The corresponding initial-boundary value problem is reduced to a matrix Riemann-Hilbert problem in the complex plane. Moreover, it is shown that the associated spectral functions depend on each other and satisfy a global relationship.