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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 “Laser Technician”

Repair or calibrate products, such as surgical lasers.
Monitor inventory levels and order supplies as necessary.
Build prototype optomechanical devices for use in equipment such as aerial cameras, gun sights, or telescopes.
Compute or record photonic test data.
Assist scientists or engineers in the conduct of photonic experiments.
Splice fibers, using fusion splicing or other techniques.
Test or perform failure analysis for optomechanical or optoelectrical products, according to test plans.
Perform laser seam welding, heat treatment, or hard facing operations.
Assemble components of energy-efficient optical communications systems involving photonic switches, optical backplanes, or optoelectronic interfaces.
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.
Fabricate sensors to be used to control wind turbines.
Terminate, cure, polish, or test fiber cables with mechanical connectors.
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.
Recommend optical or optic equipment design or material changes to reduce costs or processing times.
Fabricate devices, such as optoelectronic or semiconductor devices.
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 prototype or test apparatus, such as control consoles, collimators, recording equipment, or cables.
Monitor mechanical factors, such as turbine load or strain information.
Adjust or maintain equipment, such as lasers, laser systems, microscopes, oscilloscopes, pulse generators, power meters, beam analyzers, or energy measurement devices.
Assemble fiber optical, optoelectronic, or free-space optics components, subcomponents, assemblies, or subassemblies.
Document procedures, such as calibration of optical or fiber optic equipment.
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.
Design, build, or modify fixtures used to assemble parts.
Develop solar power sources for lasers used in fiber optics.
Lay out cutting lines for machining, using drafting tools.
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.
Optimize photonic process parameters by making prototype or production devices.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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