Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may be configured with a cross-component carrier or cross-beam quasi co-location (QCL) configuration in a sidelink carrier aggregation configuration. For example, a first beam on a first component carrier may be QCLed with a second beam on a second component carrier. The first beam may have a different beam width than the second beam or be in a different frequency range than the first beam, or both. If an application at the UE requests the UE to configure a beam on the second component carrier, the UE may use some parameters used to receive on the first component carrier to communicate using the second beam on the second component carrier.