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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 Technician”

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

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