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