Charles Hard Townes Award

The Charles Hard Townes Award of Optica is a prize for quantum electronics, including laser physics. It was created in 1980, in honor of Nobel Prize-winning laser pioneer Charles H. Townes. The Optical Society of America (now Optica), with help from Bell Laboratories, raised money for the award with an endowment campaign.

The prize has been awarded annually since 1981.

Former winners include Nobel Prize laureates John L. Hall, Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, Serge Haroche, Arthur Ashkin, and Gérard Mourou.

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