The use of optical fiber for communication has grown at a rapid pace due to the demands of the modern information era. In this paper, the modified extended direct algebraic method is implemented to explore optical solitons and other exact wave solutions for the coupled system of perturbed highly dispersive complex Ginzburg–Landau equation with polynomial nonlinearity law which describe the transmission of solitons in birefringent fibers. The obtained solutions include bright solitons, dark solitons, singular solitons and combo dark-singular solitons. Additionally, Jacobi elliptic function solutions, exponential solutions, and singular periodic solutions are also offered. To ensure the existence of the obtained soliton solutions, we set some constraints on the parameters. In addition, some selected solutions are visually shown to demonstrate the physical properties of the exact solutions.
