Optical technology has brought great progress to human civilization for a thousand years. It has played an indispensable role in all aspects of human’s life, such as illumination, communication, manufacturing and medicine, etc. And in 2015, the United Nations declared “the international year of light” to commemorate the major human discoveries in the field of light over the past millennium. That means the optical technology will continue to impact the world with the most advanced science.

In China, there are some individual institutes and companies for optical research, engaging in the development of optical manufacturing, fiber communication as well as smart phone cameras that contribute a lot to the optical industry. However, without a systematical approach to exchange and cooperate w...