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