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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 “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

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