Preface.- Basics for high-performance computing and optical interconnect.- Interconnect issues in high-performance computing architectures.- Technologies and building blocks for on-chip optical interconnects.- On-chip optical communication topologies.- Designing chip-level nanophotonic interconnection networks.- FONOC: a Fat-Tree based optical network-on-chip for multiprocessor system-on-chip.- On-chip optical ring bus communication architecture for heterogeneous MPSoC.- System integration and optical-enhanced MPSoC performance.- A protocol stack architecture for optical network-on-chip: Organization and performance evaluation.- Reconfigurable photonic networks on chip.- System Level Exploration for the Integration of Optical Networks on Chip in 3D MPSoC Architectures.