This paper discusses the study of optical solitons that are modeled by Riesz fractional Chen-Lee-Liu model, one of the versions of the famous nonlinear Schrödinger equation. This model is solved by the assistance of consecutive spectral collocation technique with two independent approaches. The first is the approach of the spatial variable, while the other is the approach of the temporal variable. It is concluded that the method of the current paper is far more efficient and credible for the proposed problem. Numerical results illustrate the performance efficiency of the algorithm. The results also point out that the scheme can lead to spectral accuracy of the studied model.