Anhui Institute of Optics and Precision Machinery of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (AIPM) was founded in December 1970, and is located in the western suburb of Hefei, Anhui Province, on the scenic science island of Shushan Lake. It is located in the western suburb of Hefei City, Anhui Province, on the scenic science island of Shushan Lake, covering an area of about 600 acres.
As a base institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Anhui Institute of Optical Mechanics has distinctive and advantageous subject areas such as atmospheric optics, environmental optics and environmental remote sensing monitoring technology, laser technology, and so on. As of September 2014, there were 440 employees, including 2 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, 59 researchers, 104 vice-high, 134 intermediate technicians; there are 2 postdoctoral stations, 3 doctoral degree-granting points, 7 master's degree-granting points. It has trained more than 940 master's degree students and 520 doctoral degree students, and awarded 622 master's degrees and 238 doctoral degrees. There are more than 370 postgraduates, 8 postdoctoral fellows, and 27 guest itinerants.
Anhui Institute of Optical Mechanics in May 2001, entered the Chinese Academy of Sciences knowledge innovation project pilot ranks, is part of the Chinese Academy of Sciences Hefei Institute of Physical Sciences. It is a part of the Hefei Institute of Materials Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. It now consists of the Research Center of Atmospheric Optics, the Research Center of Environmental Optics, the Research Center of Applied Laser Technology and the Optical Engineering Technology Center. Anhui Institute of Optical Machinery adheres to the national and social development as the traction, in the laser atmospheric transmission and laser atmospheric detection, laser spectroscopy, environmental optics and environmental monitoring technology, remote sensing and radiation calibration and correction, new types of lasers and crystalline materials, medical optoelectronics and laser medical instrumentation, fiber optics and optoelectronics, optoelectronic engineering and other disciplines, to undertake the national key scientific and technological research, the national "863", the national "863", the national "863", the national "863" and the national "863". We have undertaken national key scientific and technological research projects, national "863" program, national "973" program, the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Chinese Academy of Sciences directional and local research projects. A series of high-tech products have been developed in the cooperation with enterprises in the research and development of environmental monitoring technology, industrial and medical laser technology, laser crystal materials and other aspects. The successfully developed air quality long-range differential absorption monitoring system, portable atmospheric detection LIDAR and pollution measurement LIDAR equipment have played an important role in China's environmental pollution monitoring. In academic exchanges and cooperation, Anhui Institute of Optical Machinery and many domestic research institutes, colleges and universities, enterprises to establish a long-term cooperative relationship with the United States, Germany, Japan and other international countries and regions to establish international cooperation, academic exchanges and trade relations. Built the Asian radar observation network, APEC Environmental Monitoring Technology Center and other cooperative projects and organizations.
Anhui Institute of Optical Machinery, the existing National 863 Program Key Laboratory of Atmospheric Optics, the Chinese Academy of Sciences General Optical Radiation Calibration and Characterization of Technological Innovation Key Laboratory, Chinese Academy of Sciences Key Laboratory of Environmental Optics and Technology, Key Laboratory of Environmental Optical Monitoring Technology in Anhui Province. Anhui Institute of Optical Mechanics hosted edited and published "Journal of Quantum Electronics" and "Journal of Atmospheric and Environmental Optics" in the academic community at home and abroad have a certain academic influence.
Since its establishment, the Institute has made 448 scientific research achievements, won 170 awards at the national, academy of sciences, provincial and ministerial levels, and published 3,429 papers, including 667 papers in foreign academic journals, as well as 321 national patents.