The Board of Directors of The Optical Society (OSA) elected Mircea Guina a Fellow of the Society during their 17 September 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.