The goal of this research is to find out the effects of certain disturbances on the results of the Hanbury Brown-Twiss (HBT) experiment. The HBT experiment was performed to demonstrate the working...Show moreThe goal of this research is to find out the effects of certain disturbances on the results of the Hanbury Brown-Twiss (HBT) experiment. The HBT experiment was performed to demonstrate the working principles of the intensity interferometer. In order to model the disturbances a computer model of the HBT experiment was developed in Python. A total of three disturbances were modeled; detector efficiency, detector jitter, and detector dead time, and two types of light were modeled; Coherent and singlephoton light. Numerical experiments were performed to measure the effect of the disturbances on the measurements. For detector efficiency and dead time, a clear effect could be observed, but for the detector jitter, the results were dependent on the type of light being used.Show less