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