<PAGE>   1
As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on October 5, 2000
                                                 Registration No. 333-__________
================================================================================
                       SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                             WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
                                ----------------

                                    FORM S-8

                             REGISTRATION STATEMENT
                                      UNDER
                           THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
                                ----------------

                                   LASERSCOPE
             (Exact name of Registrant as specified in its charter)

          CALIFORNIA                                    77-0049527
     (State of incorporation)             (I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)

                               3052 Orchard Drive
                         San Jose, California 95134-2011
                    (Address of principal executive offices)
                             -----------------------

                             1994 STOCK OPTION PLAN
                        1999 EMPLOYEE STOCK PURCHASE PLAN
                        1999 DIRECTORS' STOCK OPTION PLAN
                            (Full title of the Plans)
                             -----------------------

                                 ERIC M. REUTER
                      PRESIDENT AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
                                   LASERSCOPE
                               3052 ORCHARD DRIVE
                         SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA 95134-2011
                                 (408) 943-0636
 (Name, address and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)
                             -----------------------
                                    Copy to:

                                 Peter Lillevand
                       Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
                               400 Sansome Street
                         San Francisco, California 94111
                                 (415) 392-1122

                                Page 1 of 8 Pages
                             Exhibit Index on Page 8
               (Calculation of Registration Fee on following page)


<PAGE>   2




<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                         CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                             Proposed       Proposed
                                                              Maximum        Maximum
                                        Maximum Amount        Offering      Aggregate      Amount of
                                             to be           Price Per      Offering     Registration
Title of Securities to be Registered    Registered (1)         Share          Price          Fee
------------------------------------   ---------------      ----------    -----------   -------------
<S>                                    <C>                <C>           <C>           <C>
1994 STOCK OPTION PLAN
  Common Stock,
  no par value......................    300,000 Shares(2)   $1.9219(5)    $576,570.00     $152.21


1999 EMPLOYEE STOCK PURCHASE PLAN
  Common Stock,
  no par value......................    250,000 Shares(3)   $1.9219(5)    $480,475.00     $126.85

1999 DIRECTORS' STOCK OPTION PLAN
  Common Stock,
  no par value......................    120,000 Shares(4)   $1.9219(5)    $230,628.00     $60.89


                TOTAL                   670,000 Shares                                   $339.95
                -----
</TABLE>

----------

(1)     This Registration Statement shall also cover any additional shares of
        Common Stock which become issuable under any of the Plans being
        registered pursuant to this Registration Statement by reason of any
        stock dividend, stock split, recapitalization or any other similar
        transaction effected without the receipt of consideration which results
        in an increase in the number of the Registrant's outstanding shares of
        Common Stock.

(2)     Excludes all shares previously registered under Registrant's 1994 Stock
        Option Plan on Form S-8.

(3)     Excludes all shares previously registered under Registrant's 1999
        Employee Stock Purchase Plan on Form S-8.

(4)     Excludes all shares previously registered under Registrant's 1999
        Directors' Stock Option Plan on Form S-8.


                                      -2-
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(5)     Computed in accordance with Rule 457(h) under the Securities Act solely
        for the purpose of calculating the registration fee. On October 2, 2000,
        the most recent practicable date, the high and low prices per common
        share reported were $1.9688 and $1.875 respectively, for an average
        price of $1.9219 per common share.
================================================================================

                                      -3-
<PAGE>   4

                                     PART II
               INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT

Item 3.        INCORPORATION OF DOCUMENTS BY REFERENCE.

        The following documents filed with the Securities and Exchange
Commission (the "Commission") are hereby incorporated by reference:

        (a)     The Registrant's report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended
                December 31, 1999.

        (b)     The Registrant's quarterly report on Form 10-Q for the fiscal
                quarter ended March 31, 2000.

        (c)     The Registrant's quarterly report on Form 10-Q for the fiscal
                quarter ended June 30, 2000.

        (d) The description of the Registrant's Common Stock contained in the
Registrant's Registration Statements on Form 8-A filed with the Commission under
Section 12 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the "Exchange Act") on
November 27, 1989 and November 15, 1991, including any amendment or report filed
for the purpose of updating such descriptions.

        All documents subsequently filed by the Registrant pursuant to Sections
13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Exchange Act, prior to the filing of a
post-effective amendment which indicates that all securities offered hereby have
been sold or which deregisters all securities then remaining unsold, shall be
deemed to be incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement and to be
part hereof from the date of filing such documents.

Item 4.        DESCRIPTION OF SECURITIES. Not applicable.

Item 5.        INTERESTS OF NAMED EXPERTS AND COUNSEL. Not applicable.

Item 6.        INDEMNIFICATION OF DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS.

        The Registrant's Articles of Incorporation reduce the liability of a
director to the corporation or its shareholders for monetary damages for
breaches of his or her fiduciary duty of care to the fullest extent permissible
under California law. The Bylaws of the Registrant further provide for
indemnification of corporate agents to the maximum extent permitted by the
California Corporations Code. In addition, the Registrant has entered into
Indemnification Agreements with its officers and directors.

Item 7.        EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION CLAIMED. Not applicable.


                                      -4-
<PAGE>   5

Item 8.        EXHIBITS.

<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
  Exhibit
  Number
  ------
<S>            <C>
    5.1        Opinion of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

   23.1        Consent of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP (included in
               Exhibit 5.1).

   23.2        Consent of Independent Auditors.

   24.1        Powers of Attorney (see p. 8).
</TABLE>

---------------


                                      -5-
<PAGE>   6

Item 9.        UNDERTAKINGS.

        (a)     The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes:

               (1) to file, during any period in which offers or sales are being
made, a post-effective amendment to this registration statement to include any
material information with respect to the plan of distribution not previously
disclosed in the registration statement or any material change to such
information in the registration statement.

               (2) that, for purposes of determining any liability under the
Securities Act, each such post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be a new
registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the
offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona
fide offering thereof.

               (3) to remove from registration by means of a post-effective
amendment any of the securities being registered which remain unsold at the
termination of the offering.

        (b) The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of
determining any liability under the Securities Act, each filing of the
Registrant's annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or Section 15(d) of the
Exchange Act that is incorporated by reference in the registration statement
shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities
offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be
deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.

        (c) Insofar as the indemnification for liabilities arising under the
Securities Act may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons
of the Registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the
Registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the Commission such
indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and
is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for indemnification
against such liabilities (other than the payment by the Registrant of expenses
incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling person of the Registrant
in a successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such
director, officer or controlling person in connection with the securities being
registered hereunder, the Registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel
the question has already been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a
court of appropriate jurisdiction the question of whether such indemnification
by it is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and will be
governed by the final adjudication of such issue.

                            [Signature Pages Follow]


                                      -6-
<PAGE>   7

                                   SIGNATURES


        Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the
Registrant, Laserscope, a corporation organized and existing under the laws of
the State of California, certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe
that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused
this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned,
thereunto duly authorized, in the City of San Jose, State of California, on this
5th day of October, 2000.

                                   Laserscope


                                   By: /s/ Eric M. Reuter
                                       -----------------------------------------
                                       Eric M. Reuter
                                       President & Chief Executive Officer


                                      -7-
<PAGE>   8

                                POWER OF ATTORNEY

        KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature
appears below constitutes and appoints Eric Reuter and Dennis LaLumandiere,
jointly and severally, his or her attorneys-in-fact and agents, each with the
power of substitution and resubstitution, for him or her and in his or her name,
place or stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any amendments to this
Registration Statement on Form S-8, and to file such amendments, together with
exhibits and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and
Exchange Commission, granting to each attorney-in-fact and agent, full power and
authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary
to be done in and about the premises, as fully as he or she might or could do in
person, and ratifying and confirming all that the attorney-in-facts and agents,
or his or her substitute or substitutes, may do or cause to be done by virtue
hereof.

        Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this
Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the
capacities and on the dates indicated.


<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
          Signature                                 Title                           Date
          ---------                                 -----                           ----
<S>                                      <C>                                  <C>
/s/ Robert J. Pressley, Ph.D.             Chairman of the Board of            October 5, 2000
------------------------------------      Directors
(Robert J. Pressley, Ph.D.)

/s/ Eric M. Reuter                        President, Chief Executive          October 5, 2000
------------------------------------       Officer and Director
(Eric M. Reuter)

/s/ Dennis LaLumandiere                   Vice President of Finance,          October 5, 2000
------------------------------------      Chief Financial Officer
(Dennis LaLumandiere)                     and Assistant Secretary
                                          (Principal Financial and
                                          Accounting Officer)


/s/ E. Walter Lange                       Director                            October 5, 2000
------------------------------------
(E. Walter Lange)

/s/ Rodney Perkins, M.D.                  Director                            October 5, 2000
------------------------------------
(Rodney Perkins, M.D.)

/s/ Ruediger Naumann-Etienne Ph.D.        Director                            October 5, 2000
------------------------------------
(Ruediger Naumann-Etienne, Ph.D.)
</TABLE>


                                      -8-
<PAGE>   9

                               INDEX TO EXHIBITS

<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
  Exhibit
  Number
  ------
<S>            <C>
    5.1        Opinion of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

   23.1        Consent of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP (included in
               Exhibit 5.1).

   23.2        Consent of Independent Auditors.

   24.1        Powers of Attorney (see p. 8).
</TABLE>
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1
As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on October 5, 2000
                                                 Registration No. 333-__________
================================================================================
                       SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                             WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
                                ----------------

                                    FORM S-8

                             REGISTRATION STATEMENT
                                      UNDER
                           THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
                                ----------------

                                   LASERSCOPE
             (Exact name of Registrant as specified in its charter)

          CALIFORNIA                                    77-0049527
     (State of incorporation)             (I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)

                               3052 Orchard Drive
                         San Jose, California 95134-2011
                    (Address of principal executive offices)
                             -----------------------

                             1994 STOCK OPTION PLAN
                        1999 EMPLOYEE STOCK PURCHASE PLAN
                        1999 DIRECTORS' STOCK OPTION PLAN
                            (Full title of the Plans)
                             -----------------------

                                 ERIC M. REUTER
                      PRESIDENT AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
                                   LASERSCOPE
                               3052 ORCHARD DRIVE
                         SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA 95134-2011
                                 (408) 943-0636
 (Name, address and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)
                             -----------------------
                                    Copy to:

                                 Peter Lillevand
                       Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
                               400 Sansome Street
                         San Francisco, California 94111
                                 (415) 392-1122

                                Page 1 of 8 Pages
                             Exhibit Index on Page 8
               (Calculation of Registration Fee on following page)
2
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                         CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                             Proposed       Proposed
                                                              Maximum        Maximum
                                        Maximum Amount        Offering      Aggregate      Amount of
                                             to be           Price Per      Offering     Registration
Title of Securities to be Registered    Registered (1)         Share          Price          Fee
------------------------------------   ---------------      ----------    -----------   -------------
1994 STOCK OPTION PLAN
  Common Stock,
  no par value......................    300,000 Shares(2)   $1.9219(5)    $576,570.00     $152.21

1999 EMPLOYEE STOCK PURCHASE PLAN
  Common Stock,
  no par value......................    250,000 Shares(3)   $1.9219(5)    $480,475.00     $126.85

1999 DIRECTORS' STOCK OPTION PLAN
  Common Stock,
  no par value......................    120,000 Shares(4)   $1.9219(5)    $230,628.00     $60.89

                TOTAL                   670,000 Shares                                   $339.95
                -----
----------

(1)     This Registration Statement shall also cover any additional shares of
        Common Stock which become issuable under any of the Plans being
        registered pursuant to this Registration Statement by reason of any
        stock dividend, stock split, recapitalization or any other similar
        transaction effected without the receipt of consideration which results
        in an increase in the number of the Registrant's outstanding shares of
        Common Stock.

(2)     Excludes all shares previously registered under Registrant's 1994 Stock
        Option Plan on Form S-8.

(3)     Excludes all shares previously registered under Registrant's 1999
        Employee Stock Purchase Plan on Form S-8.

(4)     Excludes all shares previously registered under Registrant's 1999
        Directors' Stock Option Plan on Form S-8.

                                      -2-
3

(5)     Computed in accordance with Rule 457(h) under the Securities Act solely
        for the purpose of calculating the registration fee. On October 2, 2000,
        the most recent practicable date, the high and low prices per common
        share reported were $1.9688 and $1.875 respectively, for an average
        price of $1.9219 per common share.
================================================================================

                                      -3-
4

                                     PART II
               INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT

Item 3.        INCORPORATION OF DOCUMENTS BY REFERENCE.

        The following documents filed with the Securities and Exchange
Commission (the "Commission") are hereby incorporated by reference:

        (a)     The Registrant's report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended
                December 31, 1999.

        (b)     The Registrant's quarterly report on Form 10-Q for the fiscal
                quarter ended March 31, 2000.

        (c)     The Registrant's quarterly report on Form 10-Q for the fiscal
                quarter ended June 30, 2000.

        (d) The description of the Registrant's Common Stock contained in the
Registrant's Registration Statements on Form 8-A filed with the Commission under
Section 12 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the "Exchange Act") on
November 27, 1989 and November 15, 1991, including any amendment or report filed
for the purpose of updating such descriptions.

        All documents subsequently filed by the Registrant pursuant to Sections
13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Exchange Act, prior to the filing of a
post-effective amendment which indicates that all securities offered hereby have
been sold or which deregisters all securities then remaining unsold, shall be
deemed to be incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement and to be
part hereof from the date of filing such documents.

Item 4.        DESCRIPTION OF SECURITIES. Not applicable.

Item 5.        INTERESTS OF NAMED EXPERTS AND COUNSEL. Not applicable.

Item 6.        INDEMNIFICATION OF DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS.

        The Registrant's Articles of Incorporation reduce the liability of a
director to the corporation or its shareholders for monetary damages for
breaches of his or her fiduciary duty of care to the fullest extent permissible
under California law. The Bylaws of the Registrant further provide for
indemnification of corporate agents to the maximum extent permitted by the
California Corporations Code. In addition, the Registrant has entered into
Indemnification Agreements with its officers and directors.

Item 7.        EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION CLAIMED. Not applicable.

                                      -4-
5

Item 8.        EXHIBITS.
Exhibit
  Number
  ------
5.1        Opinion of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

   23.1        Consent of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP (included in
               Exhibit 5.1).

   23.2        Consent of Independent Auditors.

   24.1        Powers of Attorney (see p. 8).
---------------

                                      -5-
6

Item 9.        UNDERTAKINGS.

        (a)     The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes:

               (1) to file, during any period in which offers or sales are being
made, a post-effective amendment to this registration statement to include any
material information with respect to the plan of distribution not previously
disclosed in the registration statement or any material change to such
information in the registration statement.

               (2) that, for purposes of determining any liability under the
Securities Act, each such post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be a new
registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the
offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona
fide offering thereof.

               (3) to remove from registration by means of a post-effective
amendment any of the securities being registered which remain unsold at the
termination of the offering.

        (b) The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of
determining any liability under the Securities Act, each filing of the
Registrant's annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or Section 15(d) of the
Exchange Act that is incorporated by reference in the registration statement
shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities
offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be
deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.

        (c) Insofar as the indemnification for liabilities arising under the
Securities Act may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons
of the Registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the
Registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the Commission such
indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and
is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for indemnification
against such liabilities (other than the payment by the Registrant of expenses
incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling person of the Registrant
in a successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such
director, officer or controlling person in connection with the securities being
registered hereunder, the Registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel
the question has already been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a
court of appropriate jurisdiction the question of whether such indemnification
by it is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and will be
governed by the final adjudication of such issue.

                            [Signature Pages Follow]

                                      -6-
7

                                   SIGNATURES

        Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the
Registrant, Laserscope, a corporation organized and existing under the laws of
the State of California, certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe
that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused
this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned,
thereunto duly authorized, in the City of San Jose, State of California, on this
5th day of October, 2000.

                                   Laserscope

                                   By: /s/ Eric M. Reuter
                                       -----------------------------------------
                                       Eric M. Reuter
                                       President & Chief Executive Officer

                                      -7-
8

                                POWER OF ATTORNEY

        KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature
appears below constitutes and appoints Eric Reuter and Dennis LaLumandiere,
jointly and severally, his or her attorneys-in-fact and agents, each with the
power of substitution and resubstitution, for him or her and in his or her name,
place or stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any amendments to this
Registration Statement on Form S-8, and to file such amendments, together with
exhibits and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and
Exchange Commission, granting to each attorney-in-fact and agent, full power and
authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary
to be done in and about the premises, as fully as he or she might or could do in
person, and ratifying and confirming all that the attorney-in-facts and agents,
or his or her substitute or substitutes, may do or cause to be done by virtue
hereof.

        Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this
Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the
capacities and on the dates indicated.
Signature                                 Title                           Date
          ---------                                 -----                           ----
/s/ Robert J. Pressley, Ph.D.             Chairman of the Board of            October 5, 2000
------------------------------------      Directors
(Robert J. Pressley, Ph.D.)

/s/ Eric M. Reuter                        President, Chief Executive          October 5, 2000
------------------------------------       Officer and Director
(Eric M. Reuter)

/s/ Dennis LaLumandiere                   Vice President of Finance,          October 5, 2000
------------------------------------      Chief Financial Officer
(Dennis LaLumandiere)                     and Assistant Secretary
                                          (Principal Financial and
                                          Accounting Officer)

/s/ E. Walter Lange                       Director                            October 5, 2000
------------------------------------
(E. Walter Lange)

/s/ Rodney Perkins, M.D.                  Director                            October 5, 2000
------------------------------------
(Rodney Perkins, M.D.)

/s/ Ruediger Naumann-Etienne Ph.D.        Director                            October 5, 2000
------------------------------------
(Ruediger Naumann-Etienne, Ph.D.)
-8-
9

                               INDEX TO EXHIBITS
Exhibit
  Number
  ------
5.1        Opinion of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

   23.1        Consent of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP (included in
               Exhibit 5.1).

   23.2        Consent of Independent Auditors.

   24.1        Powers of Attorney (see p. 8).