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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 “Optics Manufacturing Technician”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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The MathWorks MATLAB
Computer aided manufacturing CAM software
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Computer aided design CAD software
Word processing software
Statistical analysis software
SAP
Data acquisition software
Image processing software