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Like its bigger brothers, the new system works by focusing a laser beam on a distant target, like a drone.—
Christopher McFadden,
Interesting Engineering,
20 June 2026 What makes the system notable is that the movement is built into the material design rather than the laser beam alone.—New Atlas,
29 Apr. 2026 No sense in going the shotgun route if the problem can be solved by a narrow laser beam approach.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
10 Apr. 2026 Back-end optics—light-focusing lenses, tracking sensors, fast-steering mirrors and other components—fine-tune the laser beam.—
Adam Bluestein,
Scientific American,
5 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for laser beam