烟火药燃烧释放大量的化学能，适当的化学配方能使化学能转化为光能，因此烟火燃烧反应能够发出强光，烟火药可以作为固体激光介质的抽运源。由于使用化学抽运源，烟火抽运激光器呈现一些新特性。详细介绍了烟火抽运激光器两种技术方案的研究历史和现状，以及烟火药剂性能对激光能量的影响，综述了目前的研究进展，分析了烟火抽运激光器可能的发展方向。

Burning of pyrotechnicals releases abundant chemical energy, and the energy can be converted to optical energy with proper proportion of chemical composition. Therefore the pyrotechnic reaction gives intense optical emission and pyrotechnicals can be used as the pump sources for the solid state laser. As chemical pump sources are used, pyrotechnically pumped laser has many new characteristics. The history and actuality of the two technical schemes are introduced in detail for the pyrotechnically pumped lasers. The influence of pyrotechnic performance on the laser energy is studied. The evolvement of the special laser is summarized, and the possible develop direction is analyzed.