For the 9th-century theologian and scholar, see Patriarch Photius I of Constantinople.
Phot
Unit system
CGS units
Unit of
Illuminance
Symbol
ph
Conversions
1 ph in ...
... is equal to ...
SI derived unit
10000 lx
SAE units
929 fc
A phot (ph) is a photometric unit of illuminance, or luminous flux through an area. It is not an SI unit but rather is associated with the older centimetre–gram–second system of units. The name was coined by André Blondel in 1921.[1]
^Parry Moon. "System of photometer concepts", in the Journal of the Optical Society of America, volume 32, number 6 (June 1942), doi:10.1364/JOSA.32.000348. – Page 355: "The lumen was proposed by Blondel in 1894 and is now universally accepted. The names, phot and stilb were likewise coined by Blondel (1921) and are in general use on the Continent."