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Townes first called the concept an "optical maser."

Thus, the concept of the optical maser — later dubbed the laser — was born.

They called it an “optical maser,” a term that never caught on, and through Bell Laboratories they secured the first laser patent in 1959, a year before Dr. Maiman’s first working model.

The latest device to fascinate the technical community is the optical maser, or, as it is now often called, the laser.

It is only within the last year, with the advent of the optical maser, that it has been possible to attain precise control of the generation of light waves.