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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/Electro-Optics Technician (LEOT)”

Fabricate sensors to be used to control wind turbines.
Build prototype optomechanical devices for use in equipment such as aerial cameras, gun sights, or telescopes.
Monitor inventory levels and order supplies as necessary.
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.
Document procedures, such as calibration of optical or fiber optic equipment.
Assemble components of energy-efficient optical communications systems involving photonic switches, optical backplanes, or optoelectronic interfaces.
Mix, pour, or use processing chemicals or gases according to safety standards or established operating procedures.
Assist engineers in the development of new products, fixtures, tools, or processes.
Develop solar power sources for lasers used in fiber optics.
Maintain clean working environments, according to clean room standards.
Adjust or maintain equipment, such as lasers, laser systems, microscopes, oscilloscopes, pulse generators, power meters, beam analyzers, or energy measurement devices.
Repair or calibrate products, such as surgical lasers.
Perform diagnostic analyses of processing steps, using analytical or metrological tools, such as microscopy, profilometry, or ellipsometry devices.
Recommend optical or optic equipment design or material changes to reduce costs or processing times.
Fabricate devices, such as optoelectronic or semiconductor devices.
Optimize photonic process parameters by making prototype or production devices.
Terminate, cure, polish, or test fiber cables with mechanical connectors.
Lay out cutting lines for machining, using drafting tools.
Assemble or adjust parts or related electrical units of prototypes to prepare for testing.
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.
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.
Monitor mechanical factors, such as turbine load or strain information.
Design, build, or modify fixtures used to assemble parts.
Assemble fiber optical, optoelectronic, or free-space optics components, subcomponents, assemblies, or subassemblies.
Compute or record photonic test data.
Set up or operate prototype or test apparatus, such as control consoles, collimators, recording equipment, or cables.
Splice fibers, using fusion splicing or other techniques.
Test or perform failure analysis for optomechanical or optoelectrical products, according to test plans.
Assist scientists or engineers in the conduct of photonic experiments.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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