Intercomparison study of sensitivities from commercial OSL readers and a newly developed OSL reader

Abstract In this study, we compared the sensitivities of a newly designed OSL system with two commercial systems, performing OSL readouts of Al2O3:C irradiated with doses ranging from mGy to a few Gy. It is our first prototype, and we used a cluster of three blue LEDs (5 W each and approximately wavelength 450 nm) for the optical stimulation in the modes continuous wave (CW-OSL) and pulsed (POSL). The detection window used a bandpass filter, allowing the detection of OSL signal with a wavelength shorter than 360 nm. For detection, we have a photodetector module with a photomultiplier tube. We compared the readouts with commercial readers, respecting each reader’s different characteristics, which present different wavelengths for optical stimuli (blue and green, respectively) in CW-OSL and POSL modes. The obtained results concluded that the developed reader could be applied for OSL readouts of detectors exposed to a few hundred of mGy in POSL mode and high doses (up to a few Gy) in CW-OSL mode.