The invention provides a reciprocating optical measuring device for the surface frictional lubricating performance of a friction pair. The optical measuring device comprises an experiment operation table, an installation frame, a driving device, a centrifugal speed controller, a crank block slide groove device, a fused quartz pad, a sample clamping device, a measuring device, a lubricating device,a supporting device and a hydraulic transmission device. The optical measuring device has the advantages that a motor and the centrifugal speed controller form a feedback system, and thus the continuous and stable output speed is guaranteed; and the condition that the reciprocating rectilinear movement of the fused quartz pad in a horizontal direction in different travels can be realized by adjusting a dividing ruler of the crank block slide groove device. In addition, the measuring device induces pressure and friction force applied on a sample, acquires a surface texture image of the friction pair, and measures and evaluates the friction lubricating performance on the surface of the friction pair moving under different loads and at different temperatures, the image is analyzed through alaser-induced fluorescence spectrum method, and the cavitation phenomenon and the lubricating effect on the surface of the friction pair can be precisely observed.