智能光学是在主动光学和自适应光学基础上发展起来的新兴的概念。本文介绍了智能光学概念的提出和发展过程, 并进一步明确和扩展了智能光学的概念和范畴。对智能光学的技术基础及其应用现状进行了总结和评述, 主要包括动态光学调制技术、动态光学探测技术、智能光学系统等, 涉及了天文、**、空间、生物医学等领域中应用的望远镜、显微镜、激光器等光学系统和光学设备。最后, 对智能光学的未来发展和应用前景提出了展望。

Smart optics is an emerging concept developed from conventional optics based on the active optics and adaptive optics. This paper introduces the evolution and development of smart optics and explains and extends its concept and scopes further. Then, it summarizes and comments the developing states and applications of the smart optics, which mainly includes the dynamic optical modulation, dynamic optical sensing, and smart optics systems, involving the telescopes, microscopes, lasers, etc. in the applications of astronomy, military, space, biology, medicine, etc.. Finally, the future outlooks of developments and applications of smart optics are given.