Optical system of collimation notably for helmet display unit

Claim 1

An optical system of collimation comprising, in series: a source of images to provide a light radiation, a collimation objective to collimate the radiation, a combiner comprising a confocal assembly with a first parabolic mirror and a second parabolic mirror and a transparent plate, the first mirror being reflective to reflect the collimated radiation towards the second mirror, and the second mirror being partially transparent to enable, simultaneously, the transmission by reflection, towards an observer, of the radiation received from the first mirror, and the transmission by transparency, towards the observer, of an external radiation, the transparent plate having two ends, a first face and a second face which are parallel, the two ends being formed, respectively, by the two parabolic mirrors, and wherein an optical path of the collimated radiation between the objective and the observer comprises, subsequently, a first crossing of one of the two parallel faces, a reflection on the first mirror, several total reflections on the parallel faces, a reflection on the second mirror and a second crossing of one of the two parallel faces, wherein the plate is formed by several elements, each of the two parallel faces being formed by a surface for each element, and the surfaces being arranged so as to constitute a folded version of the system.