Self-recovery of wavefront in a nonlinear light scattering medium

Both theoretical and experimental studies of wavefront self-recovery of intense light beam propagating through heterogeneous nonlinear scattering medium are described. The self-recovery of the light beam wavefront is shown to be observed in the definite range of the light intensities when a mismatch of the linear refractive indices of the medium hetero components is compensated by nonlinear light-induced changes of refractive indices.