This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the The Second International Workshop on
Optical SuperComputing OSC 2009 held in Bertinoro Italy in November 2009. The 18 revised
full papers presented together with 1 invited lecture were carefully reviewed and selected from
numerous submissions for inclusion in the book. Being an annual forum for research
presentations on all facets of optical computing for solving hard computation tasks OCS
addresses the following topics of interest: designs of optical computing devices algorithmics
and complexity issues of optical computing computation representation by photons and holograms
neural and brain inspired architectures electro-optic 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.
