the reflectance and reflection phase properties of one dimensional photonic crystals with anisotropic left-handed materials is investigated by transfer matrix method. it is demonstrated that the width of zero-n band gap is influenced by the incident angle, polarization, the proportion of lattice and the ratio of thicknessï1/4œwhich is different from the zero-n band gap with isotropic left hand materials. the value of reflection phase is affected by incident angle and polarization and not affected by the proportion of lattice and the ratio of thickness. these characteristic may be useful for making photonic crystal phase compensators and the dispersion compensators. © 2016 spie.