How to Use laser beam in a Sentence

laser beam

noun
  • That is, how many razor blades a laser beam could cut through at one time.
    — New Atlas, 17 Jan. 2026
  • Sophie is a laser beam of drive and dedication.
    — Heide Janssen, Oc Register, 15 Mar. 2026
  • To do that, astronomers create a laser guide star by firing a yellow laser beam through a telescope.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 14 May 2021
  • Simple optics spread the laser beam to illuminate a wide swathe in front of the vehicle.
    — Mark Harris, IEEE Spectrum, 29 Nov. 2016
  • 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
  • Any of these can scatter the laser beam, subsequently dropping its effectiveness against a target.
    — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 20 June 2026
  • The researchers focused an ultraviolet laser beam onto one specific point on the nanotube.
    — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 27 Dec. 2025
  • 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
  • Lorde's Nashville concert basks in rebirth Lorde walked onto the stage, sauntering down a catwalk as synths pulsed and a white laser beam shined her way.
    — Audrey Gibbs, Nashville Tennessean, 21 Sep. 2025
  • This was essentially a copy of the main laser beam, used as a sensitive probe to detect tiny fluctuations that the main system couldn’t easily see.
    — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 19 Apr. 2026
  • It is activated from outside the body using a near-infrared laser beam, which can safely pass through human tissue to trigger the spring mechanism.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Because the laser beam is extremely narrow, multiple laser links can reuse the same wavelength without interference, as long as their beams do not cross paths.
    — Tejasri Gururaj, Interesting Engineering, 30 Mar. 2026
  • This technique involves a bath of sticky, goopy resin sitting in a glass tank that’s uncured; a UV laser beam and multiple mirrors cure one layer at a time.
    — Charlotte Hu, Popular Science, 27 Nov. 2025
  • 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
  • Each laser beam precisely matches the quantum energy levels of rubidium atoms.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Unsurprisingly, the risk increases with the laser beam’s power density.
    — Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 14 Jan. 2026
  • The company argues that today’s deal with BMW vindicates the solid-state approach to lidar, in which the laser beam is steered without machinery.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 26 Apr. 2018
  • 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
  • On the satellite side, a compact optical terminal transmits the data downlink as a focused laser beam, typically at a wavelength around 1550 nanometers.
    — Tejasri Gururaj, Interesting Engineering, 30 Mar. 2026
  • This is important as scientists have long struggled to determine whether the changes caused in silicon by a laser beam come from simple heating (thermal effects) or from direct disruption of the atomic bonds (non-thermal effects).
    — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 10 Aug. 2025
  • Inside the most complex machine mankind has ever devised, a laser beam hits a droplet of tin 50,000 times per second, generating temperatures 40 times those found on the surface of the Sun.
    — semafor.com, 2 Oct. 2025
  • The first applications are likely to be in laser beam steering for lidar, particularly for autonomous vehicles where continual information on the local environment is vital for safety.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 14 Nov. 2019
  • Rather than destroying a target with missiles or bullets, ODIN uses a focused laser beam to interfere with or disable optical equipment such as cameras, infrared sensors, and targeting systems.
    — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 14 May 2026
  • Add a few cents per shot, if a laser beam can be used instead of a $40,000 and $100,000 Tamir missile (those used in Israel’s Iron Dome), then interception becomes far less costly.
    — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 22 Mar. 2026
  • The affidavit, signed by Secret Service Officer Diego Santiago, alleges that Jacob Samuel Winkler pointed a red laser beam at Santiago, before pointing it in the direction of Marine One.
    — Max Rego, The Hill, 22 Sep. 2025

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