<human>:  I have a question about the field of Electro-optics. Who invented the laser?
<bot>: The laser was invented by Charles Townes in 1960. Townes was a physicist at Bell Labs, and he was working on a new type of amplifier that could amplify light. He was trying to create a device that could amplify light so that it could be used to transmit information. He was able to create a device that could amplify light, and he called it a laser.