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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”.
Also Known As…
- Photonics Technicians
- Ruling Technician
- Photonics Technician
- Photonic Laboratory Technician (Photonic Lab Tech)
- Optomechanical Technician
- Lead Technician
- Laser Technician
- Fiber Optics Technician
- Engineering Technologist
- Engineering Technician (Engineering Tech)
- Thin-film Technician
- Test Technician
- Strain Technician
- Service Technician
- Precision Optics Technician
- Photonics Engineering Technologist
- Photonics Engineering Technician
- Optoelectronic Technician
- Optics Test Technician
- Optics Manufacturing Technician
- Optical Manufacturing Technician
- Optical Fabrication Technician
- Optical Engineering Technician
- Laser/Electro-Optics Technician (LEOT)
- Laser Specialist
- Fiber Optics Supervisor
- Fiber Optic Technician
- Fiber Optic Assembler
- Coating Manager
Tasks for “Coating Manager”
- 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.
- Assist scientists or engineers in the conduct of photonic experiments.
- Maintain clean working environments, according to clean room standards.
- Recommend optical or optic equipment design or material changes to reduce costs or processing times.
- Monitor mechanical factors, such as turbine load or strain information.
- Assemble fiber optical, optoelectronic, or free-space optics components, subcomponents, assemblies, or subassemblies.
- Repair or calibrate products, such as surgical lasers.
- Perform diagnostic analyses of processing steps, using analytical or metrological tools, such as microscopy, profilometry, or ellipsometry devices.
- Monitor inventory levels and order supplies as necessary.
- Splice fibers, using fusion splicing or other techniques.
- 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.
- Compute or record photonic test data.
- Fabricate devices, such as optoelectronic or semiconductor devices.
- Adjust or maintain equipment, such as lasers, laser systems, microscopes, oscilloscopes, pulse generators, power meters, beam analyzers, or energy measurement devices.
- Build prototype optomechanical devices for use in equipment such as aerial cameras, gun sights, or telescopes.
- 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.
- Set up or operate prototype or test apparatus, such as control consoles, collimators, recording equipment, or cables.
- Mix, pour, or use processing chemicals or gases according to safety standards or established operating procedures.
- Test or perform failure analysis for optomechanical or optoelectrical products, according to test plans.
- Design, build, or modify fixtures used to assemble parts.
- Terminate, cure, polish, or test fiber cables with mechanical connectors.
- Fabricate sensors to be used to control wind turbines.
- Perform laser seam welding, heat treatment, or hard facing operations.
- Document procedures, such as calibration of optical or fiber optic equipment.
- Develop solar power sources for lasers used in fiber optics.
- Lay out cutting lines for machining, using drafting tools.
- Optimize photonic process parameters by making prototype or production devices.
- 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.
Related Technology & Tools
- Temperature chambers
- Fiber cleavers
- Scanning electron microscopes SEM
- Optical alignment scopes
- Optical rails
- Ion lasers
- Safety glasses
- Wafer bonding systems
- Fusion splicers
- Excimer lasers
- Laser cutting machines
- Personal computers
- Liquid dye lasers
- Die bonders
- Fiber optic fault locators
- Binocular light compound microscopes
- Rapid thermal annealers RTA
- Laser welders
- Multifunction digital multimeters
- Electron cyclotron resonance ECR reactive ion etchers RIE
- Cutoff saws
- Photoelectric power meters
- Shearing interferometers
- Semiconductor detectors
- Soldering irons
- Logic pulsers
- Loupes
- Optical mounts
- Calipers
- Fire extinguishers
- Magnifiers
- Mechanical steppers
- Humidity chambers
- Biosafety cabinets
- Positioning stages
- Hardness testers
- Protective gowns
- Collimators
- Reflow ovens
- Wire bonders
- Wire saws
- Lab jacks
- Gas lasers
- Digital oscilloscopes
- Mach-Zehnder interferometers
- Sputter deposition systems
- Chemical protective face shields
- Optical power meters
- Diffractometers
- Vernier micrometers
- Electron beam evaporators
- Hand calculators
- Diode lasers
- Bit error rate testers BERT
- Spectrophotometers
- Computerized numerical control CNC drill presses
- Digital logic analyzers
- Chemical vapor deposition CVD systems
- Signal generators
- Micrometers
- Non contact profilometers
- Common path interferometers
- Protective gloves
- Solid state lasers
- Michelson interferometers
- Contact profilometers
- Laser marking machines
- Optical spectrum analyzers
- Die saws
- Bench refractometers
- Vacuum deposition systems
- Monochromators
- Laser drills
- Dataloggers
- Coordinate measuring machines CMM
- Autocollimators
- Wavelength meters
- Plasma strippers
- Fabry-Perot interferometers
- Atomic force microscopes AFM
- Computerized numerical control CNC machining centers
- Semiconductor parameter analyzers
- Spherometers
- Laboratory forceps
- Oscilloscopes
- Wire pull testers
- Digital logic probes
- Twyman-Green interferometers
- Fiber polishers
- Computerized numerical control CNC lathes
- Depth gauges
- Spectrometers
- Phase-shifting interferometers
- Micropositioners
- Ellipsometers
- Isolators
- Abrasive grinding machines
- Laser heat treatment equipment
- Optical comparators
- Computerized numerical control CNC band saws
- Analog oscilloscopes
- Die shears
- ZEMAX Optical Design Program
- Image processing software
- Microsoft Excel
- Statistical analysis software
- The MathWorks MATLAB
- Database software
- Computer aided design CAD software
- Web browser software
- Microsoft Office
- Data acquisition software
- Word processing software
- Computer aided manufacturing CAM software
- Presentation software
- SAP