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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 “Precision Optics Technician”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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