The Board of Directors of The Optical Society (OSA) elected Mircea Guina a Fellow of the Society during their September 17th, 2018 meeting in Washington, DC, USA. He is being recognized: “For outstanding contributions to the advance of semiconductor lasers, in particular vertical external cavity surface emitting lasers (VECSELs), and leadership in optoelectronics technology, covering epitaxy, applications, and entrepreneurship.” He was officially awarded in Munich, Germany during the CLEO Europe conference on June 25th, 2019.