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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 “Photonic Laboratory Technician (Photonic Lab Tech)”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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ZEMAX Optical Design Program
Statistical analysis software
Computer aided design CAD software
Data acquisition software
Web browser software
Database software
Image processing software
Word processing software
SAP
The MathWorks MATLAB
Microsoft Excel
Computer aided manufacturing CAM software
Microsoft Office