In another example embodiment, the laser array emitter 2608 can be arranged to provide non-mechanical alignments. The laser array emitter 2608 can be arranged so that many of the laser emitting regions of the laser array emitter 2608 direct their light beams in slightly offset directions. Different groups of laser regions on the array emitter 2608 can thus define their own directional laser arrays. FIG. 31 shows an example of this, where subarrays 3112 of the laser array emitter 2608 can be aimed in slightly different directions that are off the main optical axis 3110. FIGS. 17-19 and 22, described below in Appendix A, show example embodiments of laser arrays where diffractive optical elements, microlenses, and/or macro-lenses are combined with the laser array structures to achieve light beam outputs that are offset relative to the main optical axis 3110. In the example embodiment of FIG. 31, it is expected that the offsets for the different subarrays 3112 relative to the main optical axis 3110 will be very slight, but sufficient to define a desired overlapping scope of coverage by the light beams from the light array emitter 2608. With such an arrangement, if the two optical scopes 2502 are roughly aligned with each other, further fine-tuned alignment may be achieved non-mechanically by sequencing through a flashing of each subarray 3112 to find if any of the subarrays 3112 are closely aligned with the photodetector array of the other optical scope 2502. The receiving optical scope 2502 can check whether any of the sequenced flashes from the different subarrays 3112 are largely centered on the camera cross-hairs 2906. If so, the subarray 3112 that produced the aligned flash can be tagged as the aligned subarray 3112 of laser array emitter 2608 and then used for optical data transmissions to the other optical scope 2502 without the need for further mechanical re-positioning of the optical scope 2502 via positioning system 2504.