The Charles Hard Townes Award of Optica is a prize for quantum electronics, including laser physics.
Awarded annually since 1981, it is named after the Nobel Prize-winning laser pioneer Charles H.
Townes.
[1][2] Former winners include Nobel Prize laureates John L. Hall, Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, Serge Haroche, Arthur Ashkin, and Gérard Mourou.
Official website of the prize