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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 “Engineering Technologist”

Recommend optical or optic equipment design or material changes to reduce costs or processing times.
Fabricate devices, such as optoelectronic or semiconductor devices.
Maintain clean working environments, according to clean room standards.
Assist engineers in the development of new products, fixtures, tools, or processes.
Test or perform failure analysis for optomechanical or optoelectrical products, according to test plans.
Document procedures, such as calibration of optical or fiber optic equipment.
Monitor inventory levels and order supplies as necessary.
Adjust or maintain equipment, such as lasers, laser systems, microscopes, oscilloscopes, pulse generators, power meters, beam analyzers, or energy measurement devices.
Set up or operate prototype or test apparatus, such as control consoles, collimators, recording equipment, or cables.
Mix, pour, or use processing chemicals or gases according to safety standards or established operating procedures.
Assemble components of energy-efficient optical communications systems involving photonic switches, optical backplanes, or optoelectronic interfaces.
Compute or record photonic test data.
Develop solar power sources for lasers used in fiber optics.
Repair or calibrate products, such as surgical lasers.
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.
Terminate, cure, polish, or test fiber cables with mechanical connectors.
Build photonics tools to be applied to electrical grids to detect hot spots, such as failing insulators or conductors.
Assemble or adjust parts or related electrical units of prototypes to prepare for testing.
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.
Perform diagnostic analyses of processing steps, using analytical or metrological tools, such as microscopy, profilometry, or ellipsometry devices.
Monitor mechanical factors, such as turbine load or strain information.
Assist scientists or engineers in the conduct of photonic experiments.
Assemble fiber optical, optoelectronic, or free-space optics components, subcomponents, assemblies, or subassemblies.
Splice fibers, using fusion splicing or other techniques.
Lay out cutting lines for machining, using drafting tools.
Perform laser seam welding, heat treatment, or hard facing operations.
Optimize photonic process parameters by making prototype or production devices.
Fabricate sensors to be used to control wind turbines.
Build prototype optomechanical devices for use in equipment such as aerial cameras, gun sights, or telescopes.
Design, build, or modify fixtures used to assemble parts.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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