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