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