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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 Technologist”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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