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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”.
Also Known As…
- Photonics Technicians
- Ruling Technician
- Photonics Technician
- Photonic Laboratory Technician (Photonic Lab Tech)
- Optomechanical Technician
- Lead Technician
- Laser Technician
- Fiber Optics Technician
- Engineering Technologist
- Engineering Technician (Engineering Tech)
- Coating Manager
- Thin-film Technician
- Test Technician
- Strain Technician
- Service Technician
- Photonics Engineering Technologist
- Photonics Engineering Technician
- Optoelectronic Technician
- Optics Test Technician
- Optics Manufacturing Technician
- Optical Manufacturing Technician
- Optical Fabrication Technician
- Optical Engineering Technician
- Laser/Electro-Optics Technician (LEOT)
- Laser Specialist
- Fiber Optics Supervisor
- Fiber Optic Technician
- Fiber Optic Assembler
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