Bessel beam spatially truncated

We present a study of spiral structures generated by superposition of a truncated Bessel beam and a plane wave. One of the main characteristics of spiral structures is that the shape of spiral beams remains unchanged upon propagation. The results of experimental observations using a Mach-Zehnder interferometer are compared with the numerically calculated intensity distribution. We show that when spiral beams are disturbed by a nontransparent obstacle, the amplitude of the transmitted field is distorted at nearby distances behind that obstacle, but during free-propagation, it regenerates to its initial form.