Does the Xi'an Institute of Optics and Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, refer to the 205 Institute?

No, the two institutes are different.

Xi'an Institute of Optics and Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences refers to the Xi'an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Its main research fields include basic optics, space optics, and optoelectronic engineering. Its main research directions include transient optics and photonics theory and technology, space Optical remote sensing technology, interference spectrum imaging theory and technology, optoelectronic information technology.

205 Institute refers to Xi'an Institute of Applied Optics (205 Institute), located in the Electronic Industrial Park of Xi'an High-tech Industrial Development Zone. It is a state-approved enrollment and training unit for doctoral and master's students, including optical engineering. The major has the right to confer doctoral and master's degrees, and is mainly engaged in the comprehensive application of research and development of optoelectronic products.

Extended information:

In 1962, it was decided by the Party Committee of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Party Committee of the Second Ministry of Machinery to appoint Gong Zutong, a famous scientist and one of the founders of China’s optical industry, as a member of the academy. Chairman, he led a group of scientific and technological backbones from the Changchun Institute of Optics and Mechanics and Comrade Su Jingyi, deputy director of the New Technology Bureau of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, to Xi'an, and together with some comrades from the Xi'an Institute of Applied Optics and other comrades, established the Xi'an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

In 1963, the Xi'an Institute of Optics and Mechanics undertook the development of a 200,000 times per second high-speed camera and a long-focal-length Kerr cell high-speed camera. Peiqian's arduous entrepreneurial journey.

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