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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 “Service Technician”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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