Abstract: With the development of photonic technique,the novel optical function glasses which could change the polarization, frequency, coherency and monochromaticity of light, produce and detect photon, become a main development subject in optical glass field. In this paper the sgnificant development of optical glasses and their applications in the fields of optics and information technology are introduced. The development trend and the characteristics of the main optical functional glasses such as nonlinear opticl glass, gradient index glass, laser glass and other optical function glass are pointed out. Finally the progress made by chinese optical glass industry has been reviewed.