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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 “Laser Technician”

Compute or record photonic test data.
Optimize photonic process parameters by making prototype or production devices.
Repair or calibrate products, such as surgical lasers.
Adjust or maintain equipment, such as lasers, laser systems, microscopes, oscilloscopes, pulse generators, power meters, beam analyzers, or energy measurement devices.
Assemble fiber optical, optoelectronic, or free-space optics components, subcomponents, assemblies, or subassemblies.
Mix, pour, or use processing chemicals or gases according to safety standards or established operating procedures.
Build prototype optomechanical devices for use in equipment such as aerial cameras, gun sights, or telescopes.
Maintain clean working environments, according to clean room standards.
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.
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.
Assist engineers in the development of new products, fixtures, tools, or processes.
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.
Perform laser seam welding, heat treatment, or hard facing operations.
Monitor inventory levels and order supplies as necessary.
Fabricate sensors to be used to control wind turbines.
Perform diagnostic analyses of processing steps, using analytical or metrological tools, such as microscopy, profilometry, or ellipsometry devices.
Document procedures, such as calibration of optical or fiber optic equipment.
Build photonics tools to be applied to electrical grids to detect hot spots, such as failing insulators or conductors.
Assist scientists or engineers in the conduct of photonic experiments.
Terminate, cure, polish, or test fiber cables with mechanical connectors.
Monitor mechanical factors, such as turbine load or strain information.
Test or perform failure analysis for optomechanical or optoelectrical products, according to test plans.
Splice fibers, using fusion splicing or other techniques.
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.
Assemble or adjust parts or related electrical units of prototypes to prepare for testing.
Fabricate devices, such as optoelectronic or semiconductor devices.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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