Аннотация:The correlation of the intensity is investigated for light scattered by a traveling acoustic wave
with coherent or quasithermal statistics, depending on the excitation conditions. It is
shown that the correlation of the scattered light intensity mirrors the statistics of the scattering
acoustic wave. In the case of scattering by quasithermal sound prominent features not
apparent in the angular profile of the scattering line are observed in the angular dependence of
the intensity correlation function. The fourth-order interference pattern with respect to the
field is observed for two independent, quasithermal light sources.