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