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Sophie is a laser beam of drive and dedication.—Heide Janssen, Oc Register, 15 Mar. 2026 And rather than writing one data dot at a time, the scientists developed a system that splits the laser beam to write many dots simultaneously.—New Atlas, 21 Feb. 2026 The researchers focused a laser beam on a point within glass to modify its optical properties and encode data as voxels, the 3D equivalent of pixels.—IEEE Spectrum, 18 Feb. 2026 According to the team, when a single laser beam passes through a metasurface, the pixels shape the light into thousands (or hundreds of thousands) of tightly focused laser spots simultaneously.—Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 15 Jan. 2026 See All Example Sentences for laser beam