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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 “Thin-film Technician”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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