What group is responsible for the award in quantum electronics associated with both maser and laser devices?
Charles Hard Townes Award: The Charles Hard Townes Award of The Optical Society is a prize for Quantum Electronics (physics of lasers). Charles H. Townes:  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.
The Optical Society