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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”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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