The invention discloses a laser radar imaging system based on compressed sensing. A unit APD is adopted for the system, so that the bottleneck that large-scale integration of domestic line array APDs cannot be achieved at present is effectively broken through. The system is formed by a laser emission module, a telescope imaging module, a DMD, a control module, the APD, a synchronization module, a data acquisition module and an image reconstruction module. In the system, pulse laser is emitted to a target through the laser emission module, target reflection echoes are modulated through the DMD, sampling of the unit APD on a time series is achieved through a convergence lens, and finally a three-dimensional image of the target is reconstructed on the basis of a compressed sensing theory by means of related algorithms. The laser radar imaging system based on compressed sensing has the advantages that scanning is not needed, the structure is simple, the data size needed for image reconstruction is small, and detection sensitivity is high.