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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 “Fiber Optic Technician”

Design, build, or modify fixtures used to assemble parts.
Perform laser seam welding, heat treatment, or hard facing operations.
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.
Assist scientists or engineers in the conduct of photonic experiments.
Test or perform failure analysis for optomechanical or optoelectrical products, according to test plans.
Monitor mechanical factors, such as turbine load or strain information.
Monitor inventory levels and order supplies as necessary.
Perform diagnostic analyses of processing steps, using analytical or metrological tools, such as microscopy, profilometry, or ellipsometry devices.
Assemble or adjust parts or related electrical units of prototypes to prepare for testing.
Set up or operate prototype or test apparatus, such as control consoles, collimators, recording equipment, or cables.
Splice fibers, using fusion splicing or other techniques.
Fabricate sensors to be used to control wind turbines.
Assemble fiber optical, optoelectronic, or free-space optics components, subcomponents, assemblies, or subassemblies.
Document procedures, such as calibration of optical or fiber optic equipment.
Lay out cutting lines for machining, using drafting tools.
Terminate, cure, polish, or test fiber cables with mechanical connectors.
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.
Optimize photonic process parameters by making prototype or production devices.
Develop solar power sources for lasers used in fiber optics.
Maintain clean working environments, according to clean room standards.
Assist engineers in the development of new products, fixtures, tools, or processes.
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.
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.
Recommend optical or optic equipment design or material changes to reduce costs or processing times.
Compute or record photonic test data.
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.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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