What is lumen per square metre?

Lumen per square metre is a unit of illuminance numerically equivalent to lux. It expresses the amount of light falling on a surface and is used in lighting engineering and photometry to quantify light intensity at a specific location.

What is phot?

A phot is a CGS system illuminance unit equal to 10,000 lux. It is now largely obsolete but may be encountered in older scientific literature and historical photometric measurements.

Worked examples

1 lumen per square metre = 0.0001 phot

1 phot = 10,000 lux