In this study, the optical and structural properties of dilute nitride GaAsSbN epilayers, coherently grown on GaAs substrates by gas-source molecular beam epitaxy, have been investigated. The lowest room temperature absorption edge among these GaAsSbN is 0.80 eV, indicative of the promising applications on GaAs-based long wavelength optoelectronics and tandem solar cells. Optical and structural properties of the samples before and after rapid thermal treatment were characterized by using absorption spectroscopy, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, photoluminescence, electron probe microanalysis and X-ray diffratometry. Blue shift in the energy gap of all the samples was not observed until the annealing temperature was higher than 750