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.