The invention discloses an active-passive imaging system for cat eye target detection. The system comprises a pulse laser, an emission optical system, an optical lens, a CCD detector, a video processing system and a control and delay circuit. The CCD detector conducts image acquisition on a target area through the optical lens, and transmits collected images to the video processing system. When the video processing system detects that transmission of two continuous frames of images is finished, a trigger signal is generated and transmitted to the control and delay circuit, the control and delay circuit immediately generates an electric pulse signal with the effective width equal to the acquisition cycle of the CCD detector after receiving the trigger signal, and then the trigger signal is transmitted to the pulse laser. The pulse laser generates a laser pulse signal according to the electric pulse signal, and emits a laser beam to a target to be detected through the emission optical system. According to the active-passive imaging system for cat eye target detection, generated laser pulses can track the changes of the detector acquisition frame frequency in a self-adaptive mode, so that active imaging quality is improved, and then the passive image matching ratio is improved.