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Job Description

Build, install, test, or maintain optical or fiber optic equipment, such as lasers, lenses, or mirrors, using spectrometers, interferometers, or related equipment.

Job Details

The SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code is 17-3029.08

☝️ Information based on the reference occupation “Photonics Technicians”.

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Tasks for “Coating Manager”

Develop solar power sources for lasers used in fiber optics.
Terminate, cure, polish, or test fiber cables with mechanical connectors.
Fabricate sensors to be used to control wind turbines.
Fabricate devices, such as optoelectronic or semiconductor devices.
Perform laser seam welding, heat treatment, or hard facing operations.
Assemble fiber optical, optoelectronic, or free-space optics components, subcomponents, assemblies, or subassemblies.
Perform diagnostic analyses of processing steps, using analytical or metrological tools, such as microscopy, profilometry, or ellipsometry devices.
Recommend optical or optic equipment design or material changes to reduce costs or processing times.
Build prototype optomechanical devices for use in equipment such as aerial cameras, gun sights, or telescopes.
Monitor inventory levels and order supplies as necessary.
Design, build, or modify fixtures used to assemble parts.
Maintain clean working environments, according to clean room standards.
Assist scientists or engineers in the conduct of photonic experiments.
Document procedures, such as calibration of optical or fiber optic equipment.
Repair or calibrate products, such as surgical lasers.
Mix, pour, or use processing chemicals or gases according to safety standards or established operating procedures.
Adjust or maintain equipment, such as lasers, laser systems, microscopes, oscilloscopes, pulse generators, power meters, beam analyzers, or energy measurement devices.
Lay out cutting lines for machining, using drafting tools.
Monitor mechanical factors, such as turbine load or strain information.
Assemble or adjust parts or related electrical units of prototypes to prepare for testing.
Build photonics tools to be applied to electrical grids to detect hot spots, such as failing insulators or conductors.
Set up or operate prototype or test apparatus, such as control consoles, collimators, recording equipment, or cables.
Test or perform failure analysis for optomechanical or optoelectrical products, according to test plans.
Optimize photonic process parameters by making prototype or production devices.
Compute or record photonic test data.
Assist engineers in the development of new products, fixtures, tools, or processes.
Assemble components of energy-efficient optical communications systems involving photonic switches, optical backplanes, or optoelectronic interfaces.
Assemble devices or equipment to be used in green technology applications, including solar energy, high efficiency solid state lighting, energy management, smart buildings, or green processes.
Set up or operate assembly or processing equipment, such as lasers, cameras, die bonders, wire bonders, dispensers, reflow ovens, soldering irons, die shears, wire pull testers, temperature or humidity chambers, or optical spectrum analyzers.
Splice fibers, using fusion splicing or other techniques.

Related Technology & Tools

Computerized numerical control CNC drill presses
Reflow ovens
Coordinate measuring machines CMM
Non contact profilometers
Scanning electron microscopes SEM
Isolators
Atomic force microscopes AFM
Gas lasers
Ion lasers
Sputter deposition systems
Semiconductor parameter analyzers
Abrasive grinding machines
Michelson interferometers
Digital logic analyzers
Spectrometers
Fusion splicers
Hardness testers
Fiber cleavers
Laboratory forceps
Wafer bonding systems
Mechanical steppers
Cutoff saws
Fire extinguishers
Contact profilometers
Calipers
Micropositioners
Chemical protective face shields
Micrometers
Digital logic probes
Laser cutting machines
Laser drills
Solid state lasers
Signal generators
Fiber optic fault locators
Hand calculators
Personal computers
Multifunction digital multimeters
Twyman-Green interferometers
Spectrophotometers
Mach-Zehnder interferometers
Laser welders
Soldering irons
Electron beam evaporators
Safety glasses
Computerized numerical control CNC band saws
Lab jacks
Protective gloves
Optical rails
Diode lasers
Collimators
Computerized numerical control CNC lathes
Wire bonders
Die saws
Logic pulsers
Magnifiers
Wavelength meters
Chemical vapor deposition CVD systems
Oscilloscopes
Protective gowns
Vernier micrometers
Dataloggers
Optical mounts
Common path interferometers
Photoelectric power meters
Plasma strippers
Optical power meters
Spherometers
Autocollimators
Liquid dye lasers
Electron cyclotron resonance ECR reactive ion etchers RIE
Laser heat treatment equipment
Depth gauges
Positioning stages
Die shears
Humidity chambers
Digital oscilloscopes
Vacuum deposition systems
Monochromators
Die bonders
Optical alignment scopes
Optical comparators
Loupes
Fabry-Perot interferometers
Binocular light compound microscopes
Fiber polishers
Temperature chambers
Rapid thermal annealers RTA
Computerized numerical control CNC machining centers
Wire pull testers
Diffractometers
Bit error rate testers BERT
Biosafety cabinets
Shearing interferometers
Wire saws
Ellipsometers
Phase-shifting interferometers
Optical spectrum analyzers
Analog oscilloscopes
Excimer lasers
Laser marking machines
Semiconductor detectors
Bench refractometers

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