Editing Bell Labs (section)

===2010s===
[[File:Nokia Bell Labs sign.jpg|thumb|The entrance sign to Nokia Bell Labs at the company's headquarters in [[New Jersey]] from 2016 to 2022]]
[[File:Nokia Bell Labs 2023.svg|thumb|Logo of Bell Labs since 2023]]
Gee Rittenhouse, former Head of Research, returned from his position as chief operating officer of Alcatel-Lucent's Software, Services, and Solutions business in February 2013, to become the 12th President of Bell Labs.<ref>{{cite press release |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Gee Rittenhouse to take over as President of world-famous research institution Bell Labs |url=https://www.alcatel-lucent.com/press/2013/002793 |location=Paris |publisher=Alcatel-Lucent |date=February 18, 2013 |access-date=March 10, 2016 |archive-date=March 13, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160313060739/https://www.alcatel-lucent.com/press/2013/002793 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

On November 4, 2013, Alcatel-Lucent announced the appointment of [[Marcus Weldon]] as President of Bell Labs. His stated charter was to return Bell Labs to the forefront of innovation in [[Information and communications technology]] by focusing on solving the key industry challenges, as was the case in the great Bell Labs innovation eras in the past.<ref>{{cite press release |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Marcus Weldon appointed President of Alcatel-Lucent's Bell Labs to accelerate and unlock innovation as part of The Shift Plan |url=https://www.alcatel-lucent.com/press/2013/002935 |location=Paris |publisher=Alcatel-Lucent |date=November 4, 2013 |access-date=March 10, 2016 |archive-date=July 13, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150713003440/https://www.alcatel-lucent.com/press/2013/002935 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

On May 20, 2014, Michel Combes, CEO of Alcatel-Lucent, announced the opening of a Bell Labs location in [[Tel Aviv, Israel]] by summer time. The Bell Labs research team would be directed by an Israeli computer scientist and alum of Bell Labs, Danny Raz. The Bell Labs research would be in 'cloud networking' technologies for communications. The location would have approximately twenty academic scientific background employees.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Shamah |first1=David |title=Bell Labs plans Israeli branch of its 'idea factory' |url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/bell-labs-plans-israeli-branch-of-its-idea-factory/ |access-date=17 November 2023 |work=The Times of Israel |date=20 May 2014 |language=En}}</ref>

In July 2014, Bell Labs announced it had broken "the broadband Internet speed record" with a new technology dubbed XG-FAST that promises 10 gigabits per second transmission speeds.<ref>{{cite press release |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Alcatel-Lucent sets new world record broadband speed of 10 Gbps for transmission of data over traditional copper telephone lines |url=https://www.alcatel-lucent.com/press/2014/alcatel-lucent-sets-new-world-record-broadband-speed-10-gbps-transmission-data-over-traditional |location=Paris |publisher=Alcatel-Lucent |date=July 9, 2014 |access-date=March 10, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160310210132/https://www.alcatel-lucent.com/press/2014/alcatel-lucent-sets-new-world-record-broadband-speed-10-gbps-transmission-data-over-traditional |archive-date=March 10, 2016}}</ref>

In 2014, [[Eric Betzig]] shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work in super-resolved fluorescence microscopy which he began pursuing while at Bell Labs in the Semiconductor Physics Research Department.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2014 |year=2014 |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/2014/ |publisher=Nobel Media AB |access-date=March 10, 2016 |archive-date=March 10, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160310132035/http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/2014/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

On April 15, 2015, [[Nokia]] agreed to acquire Alcatel-Lucent, Bell Labs' parent company, in a share exchange worth $16.6&nbsp;billion.<ref>{{cite press release |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Nokia and Alcatel-Lucent Combine to Create an Innovation Leader in Next Generation Technology and Services for an IP Connected World |url=http://company.nokia.com/en/news/press-releases/2015/04/15/nokia-and-alcatel-lucent-to-combine-to-create-an-innovation-leader-in-next-generation-technology-and-services-for-an-ip-connected-world |location=Helsinki & Paris |publisher=Nokia |date=April 15, 2015 |access-date=March 10, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150416133847/http://company.nokia.com/en/news/press-releases/2015/04/15/nokia-and-alcatel-lucent-to-combine-to-create-an-innovation-leader-in-next-generation-technology-and-services-for-an-ip-connected-world |archive-date=April 16, 2015 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Scott |first1=Mark |last2=Jolly |first2=David |date=April 15, 2015 |title=Nokia Agrees to $16.6 Billion Takeover of Alcatel-Lucent |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/16/business/dealbook/nokia-and-alcatel-lucent-takeover-deal-announced.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220101/https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/16/business/dealbook/nokia-and-alcatel-lucent-takeover-deal-announced.html |archive-date=2022-01-01 |url-access=limited |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=March 10, 2016}}{{cbignore}}</ref> Their first day of combined operations was January 14, 2016.<ref>{{cite press release |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Nokia celebrates first day of combined operations with Alcatel-Lucent |url=http://company.nokia.com/en/news/press-releases/2016/01/14/nokia-celebrates-first-day-of-combined-operations-with-alcatel-lucent |location=Espoo, Finland |publisher=Nokia |date=January 14, 2016 |access-date=March 10, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160309212625/http://company.nokia.com/en/news/press-releases/2016/01/14/nokia-celebrates-first-day-of-combined-operations-with-alcatel-lucent |archive-date=March 9, 2016 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

In September 2016, Nokia Bell Labs, along with [[Technische Universität Berlin]], Deutsche Telekom T-Labs and the [[Technical University of Munich]] achieved a data rate of one terabit per second by improving transmission capacity and spectral efficiency in an optical communications field trial with a [[Constellation shaping#Probabilistic Constellation Shaping|new modulation technique]].<ref>{{cite press release |publisher=Technical University of Munich |title=Optical fiber transmits one terabit per second |url=http://www.tum.de/en/about-tum/news/press-releases/short/article/33398/ |date=September 16, 2016 |access-date=September 23, 2016 |archive-date=September 23, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160923185425/http://www.tum.de/en/about-tum/news/press-releases/short/article/33398/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Antero Taivalsaari became a Bell Labs Fellow in 2016 for his specific work.<ref>{{cite web |title=Bell Labs Fellow |url=https://researchportal.tuni.fi/en/prizes/bell-labs-fellow |publisher=Tampere University Research Portal |date=2023 |access-date=1 January 2023 |archive-date=January 14, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230114050247/https://researchportal.tuni.fi/en/prizes/bell-labs-fellow |url-status=live }}</ref>

In 2017, Dragan Samardzija was awarded the Bell Labs Fellow.<ref>{{cite web |title=Dragan Samardzija |url=https://www.winlab.rutgers.edu/~samar/ |access-date=14 January 2023 |archive-date=January 14, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230114052404/https://www.winlab.rutgers.edu/~samar/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

In 2018, [[Arthur Ashkin]] shared the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on "the optical tweezers and their application to biological systems"<ref name=":2" /> which was developed at Bell Labs in the 1980s.