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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”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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