摘要：In this paper, the optical wave propagation in lossy waveguides is described by the Helmholtz equation with the complex refractive-index, and the Chebyshev pseudospectral method is used to discretize the transverse operator of the equation. Meanwhile, an operator marching method, a one-way re-formulation based on the Dirichlet- to-Neumann （DtN） map, is improved to solve the equation. NumericM examples show that our treatment is more efficient.