From a personal standpoint, and my experience of 18 years with saltwater and 7 personal marine aquariums, I've been channeled with that brown algae constantly. I haven't seen a hint of it when I switched all of my aquariums over to LED lighting - specifically, LED combination that had no red LEDs in them. I did play around with the trendy "OCW - ocean cool whites) which include one red, one cyan, one royal blue, and did have algae issues with that.
That said, algae cannot photosynthesize and produce it's own food without red light. Starve it from red wavelengths and it can't survive. Naturally LEDs are the best way to do that because the spectrum is extremely narrow, and you can pick on the wavelengths that corals photosynthesize, and avoid those wavelengths that algae photosynthesizes. Not promoting anything here, just sharing how I resolved my algae frustrations completely, after spending hundreds and hundreds of hours over the years scrubbing tanks, and playing with reactors, chambers, filters, medias etc. The less reactors, medias etc you can get away with using, usually is better in the long run as you are creating more of a natural ecosystem, instead of an ecosystem hinging on the successful operation of a half dozen or more different devices.
Jeff