relation: https://khub.utp.edu.my/scholars/3829/ title: Estimating the probability density function of the detected intensity of incoherent light sources via software simulation creator: Alhassan, A.M. creator: Badruddin, N. creator: Saad, N.M. creator: Aljunid, S.A. description: In this paper we validate through software simulation that a Gamma probability density function (pdf) can give a very good approximation of the detected intensity of the incoherent light source. We performed two experiments, in the first experiment the pdf of 0.25 nm optical signal is measured for different photo detector's electrical bandwidth. In the second experiment the eye diagram reading is performed for the optical signal at 2.5 Gbps. Results show that the simulated pdf and computed pdf agree to very high extent. Results also show that the variance in the received signal for logic '0' is negligible, meanwhile for logic '1' the variance is very large and increases with electrical bandwidth. © 2013 IEEE. publisher: IEEE Computer Society date: 2013 type: Conference or Workshop Item type: PeerReviewed identifier: Alhassan, A.M. and Badruddin, N. and Saad, N.M. and Aljunid, S.A. (2013) Estimating the probability density function of the detected intensity of incoherent light sources via software simulation. In: UNSPECIFIED. relation: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84901263052&doi=10.1109%2fMICC.2013.6805832&partnerID=40&md5=1aa0048610157ac9e610fcc97a516b95 relation: 10.1109/MICC.2013.6805832 identifier: 10.1109/MICC.2013.6805832