  We examine the correlation functions associated with intensity interferometry
and gravito-optics of gravitational wave signals from compact binary
coalescences. Previous theoretical studies of the gravito-optics of
gravitational waves has concentrated on the characterization of both the
classical and the non-classical properties of signals from cosmological sources
in the early Universe. These previous works assume a periodic signal similar to
the signals studied widely in optics and quantum optics and do not apply to
transient signals. We develop the gravito-optics of intensity correlations for
descriptions of the detection of transient signals from compact binary
coalescences and apply these methods to calculate the two-point intensity
correlations for the gravitational wave discovery. We also discuss the
necessary theoretical work required for the description of the quantum
gravito-optics of intensity correlations in the detection of signals from
binary inspirals.
