What group is responsible for the award in quantum electronics associated with both maser and laser devices?
The Optical Society
Title: Charles Hard Townes Award
Passage: The Charles Hard Townes Award of The Optical Society is a prize for Quantum Electronics (physics of lasers).  It is named after Charles H. Townes and is awarded annually since 1981.
Title: Charles H. Townes
Passage: Charles Hard Townes (July 28, 1915 – January 27, 2015) was an American physicist and inventor of the maser and laser.  Townes worked on the theory and application of the maser, for which he obtained the fundamental patent, and other work in quantum electronics associated with both maser and laser devices.  He shared the Nobel Prize in Physics during 1964 with Nikolay Basov and Alexander Prokhorov.  Charles was an advisor to the United States Government, meeting every US President from Harry Truman (1945) to Bill Clinton (1999).
Title: Radiophysics and Quantum Electronics
Passage: Radiophysics and Quantum Electronics is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering all aspects of radiophysics and quantum electronics.  It is the English translation of the Russian journal "IIzvestiya VUZ.  Radiofizika".  It is published by Springer Science+Business Media on behalf of the Radiophysical Research Institute (Russian Ministry of Education and Science) and the N. I. Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod.  The journal was established in 1958 and the editor-in-chief is Vladimir V. Zheleznyakov.
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