The invention relates to an optical
system (1) for a virtual
retinal scan display which has an illumination device (13), said illumination device (13) having at least one
first light source for emitting a
first light beam (14). Furthermore, the optical
system (1) comprises a first controllable deflection unit (12) as a first optical component for the
first light beam (14) for the scanning projection of the
image content, and the optical
system (1) has a
holographic optical element (6) which is designed to deflect the scanning first
light beam (3a, 3b) onto a
retina (4) of a user of the optical system (1). The
holographic optical element (6) has regions with different
diffraction efficiencies for the first
light beam (3a, 3b) according to the
angle of incidence (22a, 22b) of the first
light beam (3a, 3b) on the
holographic optical element (6). The optical system (1) additionally has at least one first intensity filter (16a, 16b, 16c, 16d) which is designed to adapt a first intensity of the first light beam (3a, 3b) in such a way that, when the intensity of the first emitted light beam (14) is constant, the light beam deflected by the holographic optical element (6) onto the
retina (4) is also incident on the user's
retina (4) with a
constant intensity at points in time over a first scanning region (20a).