Lasers deflected using air
I'm highly skeptical that this hasn't already been done, considering that acousto-optic lenses are a known thing -- it's just a question of which material you're using (air, crystal, liquid, etc): <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acousto-optic_modulator" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acousto-optic_modulator</a><p>Even a 10-second Google search yielded examples of prior art.  For example:<p><a href="https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2515-7647/abc23c/pdf" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2515-7647/abc23c/...</a><p>How is this any different?  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯