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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 “Optical Fabrication Technician”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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