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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 Webpage of the Prize at The Optical Society
^ "OSA establishes award in honor of Charles Townes". Physics Today. 33 (12). AIP Publishing: 56. 1980. doi:10.1063/1.2913866. ISSN 0031-9228.