Photonics Technicians

• Set up or operate prototype or test apparatus, such as control consoles, collimators, recording equipment, or cables.
• 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.
• Assist scientists or engineers in the conduct of photonic experiments.
• Repair or calibrate products, such as surgical lasers.
• Splice fibers, using fusion splicing or other techniques.
• Document procedures, such as calibration of optical or fiber optic equipment.
• 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.
• Assemble or adjust parts or related electrical units of prototypes to prepare for testing.
• Assemble fiber optical, optoelectronic, or free-space optics components, subcomponents, assemblies, or subassemblies.
• Maintain clean working environments, according to clean room standards.
• Terminate, cure, polish, or test fiber cables with mechanical connectors.
• Build prototype optomechanical devices for use in equipment such as aerial cameras, gun sights, or telescopes.
• Optimize photonic process parameters by making prototype or production devices.
• Monitor inventory levels and order supplies as necessary.
• Assist engineers in the development of new products, fixtures, tools, or processes.
• Test or perform failure analysis for optomechanical or optoelectrical products, according to test plans.
• Design, build, or modify fixtures used to assemble parts.
• Perform diagnostic analyses of processing steps, using analytical or metrological tools, such as microscopy, profilometry, or ellipsometry devices.
• Recommend optical or optic equipment design or material changes to reduce costs or processing times.

No durable tasks identified for this role — its real, individually-assessed tasks consistently read as augmentable (90%).