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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”.
Also Known As…
- Photonics Technicians
- Ruling Technician
- Photonics Technician
- Photonic Laboratory Technician (Photonic Lab Tech)
- Optomechanical Technician
- Lead Technician
- Laser Technician
- Fiber Optics Technician
- Engineering Technologist
- Engineering Technician (Engineering Tech)
- Coating Manager
- Thin-film Technician
- Test Technician
- Strain Technician
- Service Technician
- Precision Optics Technician
- Photonics Engineering Technologist
- Photonics Engineering Technician
- Optoelectronic Technician
- Optics Test Technician
- Optics Manufacturing Technician
- Optical Manufacturing Technician
- Optical Fabrication Technician
- Optical Engineering Technician
- Laser/Electro-Optics Technician (LEOT)
- Laser Specialist
- Fiber Optics Supervisor
- Fiber Optic Technician
- Fiber Optic Assembler
Tasks for “Photonic Laboratory Technician (Photonic Lab Tech)”
- Build prototype optomechanical devices for use in equipment such as aerial cameras, gun sights, or telescopes.
- Optimize photonic process parameters by making prototype or production devices.
- Assemble fiber optical, optoelectronic, or free-space optics components, subcomponents, assemblies, or subassemblies.
- Assist engineers in the development of new products, fixtures, tools, or processes.
- Build photonics tools to be applied to electrical grids to detect hot spots, such as failing insulators or conductors.
- Assemble or adjust parts or related electrical units of prototypes to prepare for testing.
- Terminate, cure, polish, or test fiber cables with mechanical connectors.
- Recommend optical or optic equipment design or material changes to reduce costs or processing times.
- Compute or record photonic test data.
- Assemble components of energy-efficient optical communications systems involving photonic switches, optical backplanes, or optoelectronic interfaces.
- Splice fibers, using fusion splicing or other techniques.
- Fabricate sensors to be used to control wind turbines.
- Design, build, or modify fixtures used to assemble parts.
- Assist scientists or engineers in the conduct of photonic experiments.
- Monitor inventory levels and order supplies as necessary.
- Fabricate devices, such as optoelectronic or semiconductor devices.
- Set up or operate prototype or test apparatus, such as control consoles, collimators, recording equipment, or cables.
- Document procedures, such as calibration of optical or fiber optic equipment.
- Perform laser seam welding, heat treatment, or hard facing operations.
- Lay out cutting lines for machining, using drafting tools.
- 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.
- 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.
- Maintain clean working environments, according to clean room standards.
- Repair or calibrate products, such as surgical lasers.
- Monitor mechanical factors, such as turbine load or strain information.
- Test or perform failure analysis for optomechanical or optoelectrical products, according to test plans.
- Perform diagnostic analyses of processing steps, using analytical or metrological tools, such as microscopy, profilometry, or ellipsometry devices.
- Develop solar power sources for lasers used in fiber optics.
- Mix, pour, or use processing chemicals or gases according to safety standards or established operating procedures.
- Adjust or maintain equipment, such as lasers, laser systems, microscopes, oscilloscopes, pulse generators, power meters, beam analyzers, or energy measurement devices.
Related Technology & Tools
- Wavelength meters
- Fiber polishers
- Semiconductor parameter analyzers
- Liquid dye lasers
- Safety glasses
- Optical comparators
- Die saws
- Solid state lasers
- Micropositioners
- Common path interferometers
- Lab jacks
- Diode lasers
- Laser heat treatment equipment
- Spherometers
- Atomic force microscopes AFM
- Sputter deposition systems
- Multifunction digital multimeters
- Digital logic analyzers
- Shearing interferometers
- Protective gloves
- Laser welders
- Personal computers
- Optical alignment scopes
- Bench refractometers
- Semiconductor detectors
- Computerized numerical control CNC drill presses
- Vacuum deposition systems
- Positioning stages
- Logic pulsers
- Coordinate measuring machines CMM
- Wire saws
- Isolators
- Temperature chambers
- Optical spectrum analyzers
- Rapid thermal annealers RTA
- Autocollimators
- Spectrometers
- Excimer lasers
- Vernier micrometers
- Protective gowns
- Oscilloscopes
- Michelson interferometers
- Monochromators
- Contact profilometers
- Spectrophotometers
- Chemical vapor deposition CVD systems
- Loupes
- Mechanical steppers
- Cutoff saws
- Computerized numerical control CNC band saws
- Computerized numerical control CNC lathes
- Ellipsometers
- Micrometers
- Laser marking machines
- Electron beam evaporators
- Fabry-Perot interferometers
- Fusion splicers
- Wire bonders
- Laser cutting machines
- Optical mounts
- Binocular light compound microscopes
- Fire extinguishers
- Signal generators
- Plasma strippers
- Diffractometers
- Depth gauges
- Laser drills
- Biosafety cabinets
- Analog oscilloscopes
- Mach-Zehnder interferometers
- Digital oscilloscopes
- Calipers
- Optical rails
- Collimators
- Die shears
- Wire pull testers
- Fiber cleavers
- Optical power meters
- Digital logic probes
- Wafer bonding systems
- Soldering irons
- Dataloggers
- Computerized numerical control CNC machining centers
- Hand calculators
- Humidity chambers
- Laboratory forceps
- Reflow ovens
- Chemical protective face shields
- Gas lasers
- Magnifiers
- Fiber optic fault locators
- Abrasive grinding machines
- Hardness testers
- Phase-shifting interferometers
- Ion lasers
- Scanning electron microscopes SEM
- Die bonders
- Bit error rate testers BERT
- Non contact profilometers
- Electron cyclotron resonance ECR reactive ion etchers RIE
- Twyman-Green interferometers
- Photoelectric power meters
- SAP
- Presentation software
- Microsoft Office
- Computer aided manufacturing CAM software
- Web browser software
- Database software
- Word processing software
- Computer aided design CAD software
- Data acquisition software
- Microsoft Excel
- Statistical analysis software
- ZEMAX Optical Design Program
- The MathWorks MATLAB
- Image processing software