Call for Paper Conference

SCOPE:

OSC, the International Workshop on Optical SuperComputing, is an annual forum for research presentations on all facets of optical computing for solving hard computation tasks. Optical computing devices have the potential to be the very next computing infrastructure. Optical computing presents an alternative to the frequency limitations, cross-talk phenomena and soft-errors of electronic devices. The natural parallelism of optical computing devices, coupled with the advance in fiber optics and optical switches make optical computing commercially viable. Research contributions to the theory, design, specification, analysis, implementation, or application of optical supercomputers are solicited.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Designs or demonstrations of optical computing devices and systems

• Algorithmics and complexity issues of optical computing

• Computation representation by photons and holograms

• Neural and brain inspired architectures

• Electro-optic devices for interacting with optical computing devices

• Practical implementations

• Analysis of existing devices and case studies

• Optical photonics and laser switching technologies

• Optical and photonic memories

• Optical signal processing subsystems

• Optical networks for high-performance computing

• Optical interconnections

• Quantum optical systems

• Applications and algorithms for optical devices

• Alpha particles, X-Rays and nano-technologies for optical computing

Dates:

Submission deadline: June 3, 2010

Acceptance notification August 10, 2010

Camera-ready copy due September 03, 2010