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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”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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