Optical SuperComputing First International Workshop, OSC 2008, Vienna, Austria, August 26, 2008. Proceedings /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Dolev, Shlomi (Editor), Haist, Tobias (Editor), Oltean, Mihai (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2008.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 5172
• Subjects: Computer science.; Computers.; Quantum physics.; Quantum optics.; Lasers.; Photonics.; Quantum computers.; Spintronics.; Computer Science.; Computing Methodologies.; Quantum Information Technology, Spintronics.; Quantum Physics.; Quantum Optics.; Laser Technology, Photonics.; Theory of Computation.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the The International Workshop on Optical SuperComputing, OSC 2008, held in Vienna, Austria, August 2008 in conjunction with the 7th International Conference on Unconventional Computation UC 2008. OCS is a new annual forum for research presentations...

Table of Contents:

• Optics Goes Where No Electronics Can Go: Zero-Energy-Dissipation Logic
• Recent Advances in Photonic Devices for Optical Super Computing
• Ultrafast Digital-Optical Arithmetic Using Wave-Optical Computing
• Photonic Reservoir Computing with Coupled Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers
• Electro-Optical DSP of Tera Operations per Second and Beyond (Extended Abstract)
• Parallel and Sequential Optical Computing
• The Use of Hilbert-Schmidt Decomposition for Implementing Quantum Gates
• A Method for Modulo Operation by Use of Spatial Parallelism
• Learning at the Speed of Light: A New Type of Optical Neural Network
• Solving NP-Complete Problems with Delayed Signals: An Overview of Current Research Directions.