Random lasers have been ideal illumination sources for speckle-free and high-speed imaging. Despite their successes, the real applications of random lasers are facing a long-standing challenge, i.e., the cumbersome size of the illuminating system. Herein, we demonstrate perovskite-based surface emitting random lasers (SERLs) and explore their applications in speckle-free imaging. The random lasers are generated by multiple scattering in a perovskite polycrystalline film sandwiched by two distributed Bragg reflectors. Owing to the tight confinement in vertical direction and large number of random resonances, the wavevectors of random lasers are dominated by their vertical components, and thus, multimode SERLs with a divergence angle of ∼3-5° and low spatial coherence are produced. By directly illuminating the patterns with the SERLs, the notable speckle noises of conventional optical images have been dramatically suppressed. This research shall provide a strategy toward the integrated spectral-free imaging systems.
Keywords: perovskite; random laser; spatial coherence; speckle-free imaging; vertical cavity surface-emitting laser.