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notice the two crystals? they make the lightsaber what it is. casing is inconsequential. basically how a lightsaber works is energy pouring through crystals and focusing into a beam of "coherent light"
because this science belongs to star wars and earth i cant even dare to explain it but yeah i think you get the idea.