  Correlations of a Bose gas released from an optical lattice are measured
using superradiant scattering. Conditions are chosen so that after initial
incident light pumping at the Bragg angle for diffraction, due to matter wave
amplification and mode competition, superradiant scattering into the Bragg
diffracted mode is preponderant. A temporal analysis of the superradiant
scattering gain reveals periodical oscillations and damping due to the initial
lack of coherence between lattice sites. Such damping is used for
characterizing first order spatial correlations in our system with a precision
of one lattice period.
