高能激光的产生、传输和应用是现代激光技术和光学工程的一个重要发展方向。它不仅涉及到一系列物理问题，还有赖于多项要求极高的工程技术问题。文章提出了8个与高能激光有关的应用光学问题，包括高能激光器、高质量光学元器件、先进的自适应光学技术、非线性光学相共轭技术、变频技术及光束相干合成技术等。着重阐明对它们的要求和可能的发展方向。

Making and propagation and application of high energy laser is an important direction of modern laser technology and optics engineering. It involves a series of physical problems and depends upon a lot of top-level technologies as well. The paper discusses eight topics of applied optics related with high energy laser, such as high energy laser devices, high quality optical elements, advanced adaptive optics, nonlinear optical phase conjugation, frequency tuning, coherent combination of laser beams, etc.