Essilor International and Kloé have been working together since 2002 and just began a new 18 month research and development contract. This is the fourth contract signed between both companies.

At the same time, the project ECOFRAME, which concerns the development of new networks of broadband access, began on February 1st, 2007. This project is financed by the ANR and gathers around the same problems Alcatel-Lucent, France Telecom, the ENST, the ENST Brittany, the National Institute of Telecommunications, the University of Versailles, X-LIM and Kloé.

Kloé has to propose new solutions to integrate the optical and optoelectronical functions on the same chip.