Optical Vortex Metrology: Displacement and Flow Measurements with Phase Singularities.

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]