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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
- Precision Optics 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 “Service Technician”
- Assemble fiber optical, optoelectronic, or free-space optics components, subcomponents, assemblies, or subassemblies.
- Build prototype optomechanical devices for use in equipment such as aerial cameras, gun sights, or telescopes.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Test or perform failure analysis for optomechanical or optoelectrical products, according to test plans.
- Document procedures, such as calibration of optical or fiber optic equipment.
- Assist scientists or engineers in the conduct of photonic experiments.
- Perform laser seam welding, heat treatment, or hard facing operations.
- Develop solar power sources for lasers used in fiber optics.
- Terminate, cure, polish, or test fiber cables with mechanical connectors.
- Recommend optical or optic equipment design or material changes to reduce costs or processing times.
- Fabricate devices, such as optoelectronic or semiconductor devices.
- Design, build, or modify fixtures used to assemble parts.
- Lay out cutting lines for machining, using drafting tools.
- Assist engineers in the development of new products, fixtures, tools, or processes.
- Optimize photonic process parameters by making prototype or production devices.
- 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.
- Fabricate sensors to be used to control wind turbines.
- Compute or record photonic test data.
- Maintain clean working environments, according to clean room standards.
- 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.
- Monitor inventory levels and order supplies as necessary.
- Mix, pour, or use processing chemicals or gases according to safety standards or established operating procedures.
- Assemble or adjust parts or related electrical units of prototypes to prepare for testing.
- Repair or calibrate products, such as surgical lasers.
Related Technology & Tools
- Chemical vapor deposition CVD systems
- Excimer lasers
- Laser welders
- Fire extinguishers
- Computerized numerical control CNC band saws
- Vacuum deposition systems
- Biosafety cabinets
- Safety glasses
- Optical power meters
- Spectrophotometers
- Dataloggers
- Cutoff saws
- Semiconductor detectors
- Loupes
- Sputter deposition systems
- Chemical protective face shields
- Ellipsometers
- Isolators
- Fiber cleavers
- Wire pull testers
- Bit error rate testers BERT
- Solid state lasers
- Vernier micrometers
- Non contact profilometers
- Rapid thermal annealers RTA
- Scanning electron microscopes SEM
- Laser heat treatment equipment
- Atomic force microscopes AFM
- Digital logic probes
- Fiber polishers
- Micrometers
- Diode lasers
- Autocollimators
- Lab jacks
- Fusion splicers
- Ion lasers
- Optical mounts
- Fiber optic fault locators
- Computerized numerical control CNC lathes
- Twyman-Green interferometers
- Computerized numerical control CNC machining centers
- Laser drills
- Hand calculators
- Wire saws
- Personal computers
- Plasma strippers
- Electron beam evaporators
- Optical comparators
- Wire bonders
- Protective gloves
- Gas lasers
- Diffractometers
- Analog oscilloscopes
- Fabry-Perot interferometers
- Laboratory forceps
- Hardness testers
- Wafer bonding systems
- Micropositioners
- Phase-shifting interferometers
- Oscilloscopes
- Die saws
- Positioning stages
- Logic pulsers
- Optical spectrum analyzers
- Protective gowns
- Spectrometers
- Computerized numerical control CNC drill presses
- Wavelength meters
- Semiconductor parameter analyzers
- Die bonders
- Digital oscilloscopes
- Die shears
- Temperature chambers
- Calipers
- Coordinate measuring machines CMM
- Michelson interferometers
- Collimators
- Abrasive grinding machines
- Liquid dye lasers
- Bench refractometers
- Depth gauges
- Spherometers
- Contact profilometers
- Soldering irons
- Mechanical steppers
- Optical alignment scopes
- Laser marking machines
- Binocular light compound microscopes
- Multifunction digital multimeters
- Laser cutting machines
- Humidity chambers
- Common path interferometers
- Optical rails
- Digital logic analyzers
- Photoelectric power meters
- Signal generators
- Magnifiers
- Electron cyclotron resonance ECR reactive ion etchers RIE
- Monochromators
- Reflow ovens
- Shearing interferometers
- Mach-Zehnder interferometers
- Word processing software
- Microsoft Office
- Database software
- The MathWorks MATLAB
- Presentation software
- Data acquisition software
- SAP
- Statistical analysis software
- ZEMAX Optical Design Program
- Image processing software
- Computer aided manufacturing CAM software
- Microsoft Excel
- Web browser software
- Computer aided design CAD software