In this paper, we study the formation of solitons, their propagation and collision behaviour in an integrable multicomponent (2+1)-dimensional long wave–short wave resonance interaction (𝑀-LSRI) system. First, we briefly revisit the earlier results on the dynamics of bright solitons and demonstrate the fascinating energy exchange collision of bright solitons appearing in the short-wave components of the 𝑀-LSRI system. Then, we explicitly construct the exact one-and two-multicomponent dark soliton solutions of the 𝑀-LSRI system by using the Hirota’s direct method and explore its propagation dynamics. Also, we study the features of dark soliton collisions.

In this paper, we discuss the fascinating energy sharing collisions of multicomponent solitons in certain incoherently coupled and coherently coupled nonlinear Schrödinger-type equations arising in the context of nonlinear optics.