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