1. A method of characterizing a Solid State Light (SSL) source, comprising: providing a SSL source; energizing the SSL source to emit light; acquiring a Spectral Power Distribution (SPD) of light emitted by the SSL source; selecting the SPD; configuring an order of the curve-fitting function, a number of nodes, a set of wavelength boundary limits, a saturation threshold, a noise floor threshold; detecting nodes in the SPD; solving for function coefficients that fit a specified type of function; iterating to find an optimum solution; checking confidence values; generating a set of C-Parameters, a set of noise parameters and a set of confidence values that characterize the SSL source.