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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 “Photonics Engineering Technician”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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ZEMAX Optical Design Program