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Optical detection of objects hidden behind opaque screening layers is a challenging problem. We demonstrate an optically detected echographic-like method that combines collimated acoustic and laser beams. The acoustic waves cross the screening layers and their back-reflection from the hidden objects is detected through the analysis of a dynamic laser speckle pattern created at the outer surface of the screening layer. Real-time remote detection of moving targets 15 meters away, with a few mm resolutions is demonstrated using a very sensitive camera detection scheme. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We review the principle and the applications of a new technique which we recently proposed for displacement and flow measurements. The technique is called optical vortex metrology because it makes use of phase singularities in the complex signal as markers or tracers, which are generated by a vortex filer that performs a Riesz or Laguerre-Gauss transform operation to a speckle-like random pattern. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]