Abstract:In order to control the dispersion of photonic crystal fiber, the total dispersion is exp ressed the sum of waveguide dispersion and material dispersion. A vector effective indexmethod is used to analyze the dependences of the waveguide dispersion and nonlinear coefficient on the air hole-to-hole spacing and air-filling fraction of cladding. According to the analysis results, a well-defined procedure is presented to design specific dispersion and nonlinear co-efficient profiles in the Ti: Sapphire laserwavelength range. It is shown from numerical results that it is possible to design photonic crystal fiber with normal, anomalous, zero flattened dispersion and high nonlinear coefficient around 800nm.