Display, in particular head-up-display of a vehicle

A display for a vehicle, comprising an image forming unit configured to generate an image, an illumination device that in operation illuminates the image forming unit, a deflecting unit that in operation provides a user with a virtual image of the image generated by the image forming unit, and a dimmer configured to dim the illumination device;

• wherein the image forming unit comprises a reflective liquid crystal on silicon (LCoS) display and an at least partially transmissive scattering surface provided along a light path of light reflected from the reflective LCoS display between the reflective LCoS display and the deflecting unit, and the deflecting unit comprises a partially transmissive combiner;
• wherein the reflective LCoS display comprises a light sensor configured to automatically control the dimmer;
• wherein the image forming unit comprises a polarizing beam splitter, the polarizing beam splitter is oriented such that an incidence angle between a light beam coming from the illuminating device and a normal vector of a main plane of the polarizing beam splitter is substantially 45 degrees, the polarizing beam splitter is configured to at least partially reflect the light beam coming from the illumination device toward the reflective LCoS display and to transmit the light reflected by the reflective LCoS display toward the deflecting unit;
• and
• wherein, in operation, a part of the light beam reflected by the polarizing beam splitter is linearly polarized along a first polarizing direction, the part of the light beam reflected by the polarizing beam splitter hits substantially perpendicular onto a screen of the reflective LCoS display, the reflective LCoS display modulates the light beam with image information to create a modulated light beam, the modulated light beam is polarized in a second polarizing direction which is substantially perpendicular to the first polarizing direction, the modulated light beam is reflected by the reflective LCoS display toward the deflecting unit, and the modulated light beam is substantially transmitted entirely through the polarizing beam splitter.