The purpose of this paper is to find a practical and effective fusion method for infrared and visible images.This paper proposes a novel method for fusion of the infrared and the visible images based on phase modulation.Firstly,phase modulation is conducted to the visible and infrared images.Then inverse transformation is made and the fusion image is obtained.Experimental results show that the method discussed above is effective in visual effect,the quantity of information,and the details of information.It also shows that this new method gets a better fusion image than wavelet transform.