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

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

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