Owing to the excellent properties of perovskite quantum dots (QDs), such as an easy synthesis process, high photoluminescence quantum yields, high defect tolerance, and tunable bandgap with different elements, laser actions have been widely conducted. Over the past few years, several approaches have been used for successfully creating perovskite QD lasers. In this review, we summarize the progress of perovskite QD lasers from the aspects of laser theory, characteristics and applications of QD lasers, advantages of perovskite materials for lasers, factors influencing the QD laser threshold, two-photon pumped QD lasers, and perovskite QD laser stability. At the same time, aiming at existing problems, possible solutions and prospects are presented.
K E Y W O R D Slaser optical gain, perovskite, quantum dot, stability, threshold Jie Chen and Wenna Du contributed equally to this work.