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

In Luminescence: Comprehensive Luminescence Dating Data Analysis

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, ...)

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.

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.

Value

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

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., de Boer, A., Bluszcz, A., 2026. Luminescence: Comprehensive Luminescence Dating Data Analysis. R package version 1.3.1. https://r-lum.github.io/Luminescence/

Note

The transformation is recommended for curves recorded with a channel resolution of at least 0.05 s/channel.

Author(s)

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

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)

Luminescence documentation built on Sept. 18, 2026, 9:07 a.m.