Optical SuperComputing

1. Front Matter

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2. Optics Goes Where No Electronics Can Go: Zero-Energy-Dissipation Logic

   • H. John Caulfield

   Pages 1-8

3. Recent Advances in Photonic Devices for Optical Super Computing

   • Hossin Abdeldayem, Donald O. Frazier, William K. Witherow, Curtis E. Banks, Benjamin G. Penn, Mark S. Paley

   Pages 9-32

4. Ultrafast Digital-Optical Arithmetic Using Wave-Optical Computing

   • Tobias Haist, Wolfgang Osten

   Pages 33-45

5. Photonic Reservoir Computing with Coupled Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers

   • Kristof Vandoorne, Wouter Dierckx, Benjamin Schrauwen, David Verstraeten, Peter Bienstman, Roel Baets et al.

   Pages 46-55

6. Electro-Optical DSP of Tera Operations per Second and Beyond (Extended Abstract)

   • Dan E. Tamir, Natan T. Shaked, Peter J. Wilson, Shlomi Dolev

   Pages 56-69

7. Parallel and Sequential Optical Computing

   • Damien Woods, Thomas J. Naughton

   Pages 70-86

8. The Use of Hilbert-Schmidt Decomposition for Implementing Quantum Gates

   • Yacob Ben-Aryeh

   Pages 87-97

9. A Method for Modulo Operation by Use of Spatial Parallelism

   • Kouichi Nitta, Nobuto Katsuta, Osamu Matoba

   Pages 98-103

10. Learning at the Speed of Light: A New Type of Optical Neural Network

    • Arthur Steven Younger, Emmett Redd

    Pages 104-114

11. Solving NP-Complete Problems with Delayed Signals: An Overview of Current Research Directions

    • Mihai Oltean, Oana Muntean

    Pages 115-127

12. Back Matter

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OCS, the International Workshop on Optical SuperComputing, is a new annual forum for research presentations on all facets of optical computing for solving hard computation tasks. Optical computing devices have the potential to build the very next computing infrastructure. Given the frequency limitations and cross-talk phenomena, as well as the soft-errors, of electronic devices on one hand, and the natural parallelism of optical computing devices, as well as the advances in ?ber optics and optical switches, on the other hand, optical c- puting is becoming increasingly marketable. The focus of the workshop is on research surrounding the theory, design, speci?cation, analysis, implementation, and application of optical supercomputers. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: design of optical computing devices; electro-optics devices for interacting with optical computing devices; practical implementations; analysis of existing devices and case studies; optical and laser switching technologies; applications and algorithms for optical devices; and alpha practical, x-rays and nano-technologies for optical computing. The First OSC workshop was held on August 26th, 2008, in Vienna, Austria, co-located with the 7th International Conference on Unconventional Computing. This volume contains eight contributions selected by the program committee andtwoinvitedpapers. Allsubmittedpaperswerereadandevaluatedbyatleast three program committee members, assisted by external reviewers. The review process was aided by the EasyChair system. OSC 2008 was organized in cooperation with OSA the Optical Society of America. The support of Ben-Gurion University and Babe?-Bolyai University is also gratefully acknowledged.

• algorithms
• arithmetic
• laser
• linear optimization
• logic
• nano technology
• network
• optical amplifier
• optics
• photonic device
• quantum gate
• quantum gates
• supercomputing
• x-rays
• zero energy dissipation

• Department of Computer Science, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel

  Shlomi Dolev

• Universität Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany

  Tobias Haist

• Computer Science Department, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

  Mihai Oltean

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