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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 Test Technician”

Assemble or adjust parts or related electrical units of prototypes to prepare for testing.
Monitor mechanical factors, such as turbine load or strain information.
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.
Fabricate sensors to be used to control wind turbines.
Fabricate devices, such as optoelectronic or semiconductor devices.
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.
Splice fibers, using fusion splicing or other techniques.
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.
Build photonics tools to be applied to electrical grids to detect hot spots, such as failing insulators or conductors.
Repair or calibrate products, such as surgical lasers.
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.
Design, build, or modify fixtures used to assemble parts.
Maintain clean working environments, according to clean room standards.
Optimize photonic process parameters by making prototype or production devices.
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.
Perform laser seam welding, heat treatment, or hard facing operations.
Lay out cutting lines for machining, using drafting tools.
Assist engineers in the development of new products, fixtures, tools, or processes.
Assist scientists or engineers in the conduct of photonic experiments.
Monitor inventory levels and order supplies as necessary.
Perform diagnostic analyses of processing steps, using analytical or metrological tools, such as microscopy, profilometry, or ellipsometry devices.
Terminate, cure, polish, or test fiber cables with mechanical connectors.
Compute or record photonic test data.
Test or perform failure analysis for optomechanical or optoelectrical products, according to test plans.
Develop solar power sources for lasers used in fiber optics.
Build prototype optomechanical devices for use in equipment such as aerial cameras, gun sights, or telescopes.
Set up or operate prototype or test apparatus, such as control consoles, collimators, recording equipment, or cables.

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

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