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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 “Strain Technician”

Develop solar power sources for lasers used in fiber optics.
Set up or operate prototype or test apparatus, such as control consoles, collimators, recording equipment, or cables.
Compute or record photonic test data.
Perform diagnostic analyses of processing steps, using analytical or metrological tools, such as microscopy, profilometry, or ellipsometry devices.
Terminate, cure, polish, or test fiber cables with mechanical connectors.
Fabricate sensors to be used to control wind turbines.
Optimize photonic process parameters by making prototype or production devices.
Test or perform failure analysis for optomechanical or optoelectrical products, according to test plans.
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.
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.
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.
Assemble fiber optical, optoelectronic, or free-space optics components, subcomponents, assemblies, or subassemblies.
Lay out cutting lines for machining, using drafting tools.
Repair or calibrate products, such as surgical lasers.
Maintain clean working environments, according to clean room standards.
Monitor inventory levels and order supplies as necessary.
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.
Splice fibers, using fusion splicing or other techniques.
Recommend optical or optic equipment design or material changes to reduce costs or processing times.
Assist engineers in the development of new products, fixtures, tools, or processes.
Build prototype optomechanical devices for use in equipment such as aerial cameras, gun sights, or telescopes.
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.
Perform laser seam welding, heat treatment, or hard facing operations.
Assist scientists or engineers in the conduct of photonic experiments.
Design, build, or modify fixtures used to assemble parts.

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