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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”

Design, build, or modify fixtures used to assemble parts.
Assemble fiber optical, optoelectronic, or free-space optics components, subcomponents, assemblies, or subassemblies.
Assist engineers in the development of new products, fixtures, tools, or processes.
Mix, pour, or use processing chemicals or gases according to safety standards or established operating procedures.
Maintain clean working environments, according to clean room standards.
Assemble or adjust parts or related electrical units of prototypes to prepare for testing.
Recommend optical or optic equipment design or material changes to reduce costs or processing times.
Repair or calibrate products, such as surgical lasers.
Build photonics tools to be applied to electrical grids to detect hot spots, such as failing insulators or conductors.
Develop solar power sources for lasers used in fiber optics.
Monitor mechanical factors, such as turbine load or strain information.
Fabricate devices, such as optoelectronic or semiconductor devices.
Compute or record photonic test data.
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.
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.
Set up or operate prototype or test apparatus, such as control consoles, collimators, recording equipment, or cables.
Terminate, cure, polish, or test fiber cables with mechanical connectors.
Lay out cutting lines for machining, using drafting tools.
Monitor inventory levels and order supplies as necessary.
Document procedures, such as calibration of optical or fiber optic equipment.
Perform laser seam welding, heat treatment, or hard facing operations.
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.
Test or perform failure analysis for optomechanical or optoelectrical products, according to test plans.
Assist scientists or engineers in the conduct of photonic experiments.
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.
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.

Related Technology & Tools

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

Image processing software
Data acquisition software
Computer aided manufacturing CAM software
Database software
Presentation software
SAP
Word processing software
Microsoft Office
Web browser software
Computer aided design CAD software
The MathWorks MATLAB
ZEMAX Optical Design Program
Microsoft Excel
Statistical analysis software