Radiometric Measurements
It’s easy to confuse the units of LED light output. Steradians, luminous intensity, etc.
Here’s a link to an application note that explains these well, written by C. Richard Duda of UDT (now part of OSI Inc). Apertures, intentional and otherwise, are discussed, along with typical test configurations.
Link to pdf of application note titled Radiometric
Please tell us if the link gets broken!