Luminescence (version 1.3.0)

convert_CW2pLM: Transform a CW-OSL curve into a pLM-OSL curve

Description

Transforms a conventionally measured continuous-wave (CW) curve into a pseudo linearly modulated (pLM) curve using the equations given in Bulur (2000).

Usage

convert_CW2pLM(object, ...)

Value

The function returns the same data type as the input data type with the transformed curve values (data.frame or RLum.Data.Curve).

Arguments

object

RLum.Data.Curve or data.frame (required): RLum.Data.Curve object or a data.frame with measured curve data of type stimulation time (t) (object[, 1]) and measured counts (cts) (object[, 2]).

...

currently not used.

Function version

0.4.4

How to cite

Kreutzer, S., Colombo, M., 2026. convert_CW2pLM(): Transform a CW-OSL curve into a pLM-OSL curve. Function version 0.4.4. In: Kreutzer, S., Burow, C., Dietze, M., Fuchs, M.C., Schmidt, C., Fischer, M., Friedrich, J., Mercier, N., Philippe, A., Riedesel, S., Autzen, M., Mittelstrass, D., Gray, H.J., Galharret, J., Colombo, M., Steinbuch, L., Boer, A.d., Bluszcz, A., 2026. Luminescence: Comprehensive Luminescence Dating Data Analysis. R package version 1.3.0. https://r-lum.github.io/Luminescence/

Author

Sebastian Kreutzer, F2.1 Geophysical Parametrisation/Regionalisation, LIAG - Institute for Applied Geophysics (Germany)
Marco Colombo, Institute of Geography, Heidelberg University (Germany)
, RLum Developer Team

Details

According to Bulur (2000) the curve data are transformed by introducing two new parameters P (stimulation period) and u (transformed time):

$$P=2\max(t)$$ $$u=\sqrt{(2t*P)}$$

The new count values are then calculated by $$ctsNEW = cts(u/P)$$

and the returned data.frame is produced by: data.frame(u,ctsNEW)

The output of the function can be further used for LM-OSL fitting.

References

Bulur, E., 2000. A simple transformation for converting CW-OSL curves to LM-OSL curves. Radiation Measurements 32, 141-145.

Further Reading

Bulur, E., 1996. An Alternative Technique For Optically Stimulated Luminescence (OSL) Experiment. Radiation Measurements 26, 701-709.

See Also

convert_CW2pHMi, convert_CW2pLMi, convert_CW2pPMi, fit_LMCurve, lm, RLum.Data.Curve

Examples

##read curve from CWOSL.SAR.Data transform curve and plot values
data(ExampleData.BINfileData, envir = environment())

##read id for the 1st OSL curve
id.OSL <- CWOSL.SAR.Data@METADATA[CWOSL.SAR.Data@METADATA[,"LTYPE"] == "OSL","ID"]

##produce x and y (time and count data for the data set)
x<-seq(CWOSL.SAR.Data@METADATA[id.OSL[1],"HIGH"]/CWOSL.SAR.Data@METADATA[id.OSL[1],"NPOINTS"],
       CWOSL.SAR.Data@METADATA[id.OSL[1],"HIGH"],
       by = CWOSL.SAR.Data@METADATA[id.OSL[1],"HIGH"]/CWOSL.SAR.Data@METADATA[id.OSL[1],"NPOINTS"])
y <- unlist(CWOSL.SAR.Data@DATA[id.OSL[1]])
values <- data.frame(x,y)

##transform values
values.transformed <- convert_CW2pLM(values)

##plot
plot(values.transformed)