中国科学院光电技术研究所的自适应光学研究始于1979年。1980年建立自适应光学研究室，在突破了波前校正器（包括变形反射镜和高速倾斜反射镜）、波前传感器、波前处理机和波前控制等关键技术的基础上，研制了一系列自适应光学系统，用于天文望远镜、惯性约束聚变和人眼视觉研究等。

The research on adaptive optics of the Institute of Optics and Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences was originated in 1979. In 1980, the first adaptive optics laboratory was established. Based on the key technical breakthroughs of the wavefront corrector (including deformable mirror and fast steering mirror), wavefront sensor, wavefront processor and wavefront control, a series of adaptive optical systems had been set up and applied in astronomical telescopes, inertial confinement fusion and retinal high-resolution imaging and so on.