You’re looking way too deep into it. Plants just want usable photons regardless of how it gets them and yes raising with more power will increase footprint

Right I get that I'm just wondering if one type of dimming system is more efficient than the other. I recently got a ppfd meter and I'm getting curious about how delivering said photons impacts the plant growth. What I'm mainly curious about is what I asked about the two different dimming option but ik also curious about what happens if I give the plant the same DLI in 11 hours of light instead of 12 what happens? Is the intensity too much and it can only take so many photons per hour and can only do that for 12 hours and that's why we light it that way? To squeeze the most light photons in a single day as it can handle, or could we possibly give it the same dli in less time and since it has less time of light per day could possibly think its later in the season and accelerate maturity? I'm starting to get into serious questions about lighting

You can absolutely run a higher pffd for 11 hours but you will need to supplement Co2 if you’re chasing yields. I run a 45 dli which is around 1000 ppfd and need at least 1100ppm of Co2 for the plant to keep up or they will start to yellow and for me to run the same dli at 11 hours it would jump to 1400ppm of Co2. There’s a ton of benefits to running 11 hours but I’d rather save on Co2