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