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The light intensity a horticultural light produces per Joule of power it uses. This is a measure of its efficiency. At the time of writing, the most efficient LED package available is the [https://www.samsung.com/led/lighting/mid-power-leds/3030-leds/lm301h/ LM301H] by Samsung. It achieves 3.10 μmol/J @ 65 mA, 25°C. Note the efficiency will change depending on the temperature and current supplied.
=== DLI (Daily light Intergral) ===
The amount of light energy (photons) a plant is receiving every 24 hours. For example, if you used a light with a PPFD of 500μmol/m^2/s on a 20/4 lighting schedule that would result in a DLI of 43.20.
DLI is useful as a metric as it takes light schedule into account
[https://www.waveformlighting.com/horticulture/daily-light-integral-dli-calculator DLI calculator]
Full light intensity from the sun in summer reaches around 60 DLI<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ID9rE5JewVg&t=1170s&ab_channel=ApogeeInstrumentsInc. - Bruce Bugee Grow lighting myths</ref>
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