The Adaptive Optics department's mission is to provide its astronomical community with worldwide competitive ground-based adaptive optics observing capabilities overcoming the limitation of atmospheric turbulence. This requires developing, installing and commissioning state of the art Adaptive Optics facilities and forcing the necessary advanced technologies. The Adaptive Optics department has established a long term and effective collaboration with the research institutes in the ESO member states and has a successful record of Adaptive Optics based instruments developed with its community. The Adaptive Optics department has fruitful cooperations with industry to develop the key technologies required by the ESO observing capabilities.

Annoucement: Super-thin Mirror for Sharper Star Images

Announcement: ESO Awards Contract for E-ELT Adaptive Mirror Design Study	Announcement: Super-thin Mirror for Sharper Star Images	Press release with NACO and SINFONI

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The VLT Deformable Secondary Mirror has been delivered to ESO Garching early December 2012.

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