The solid-state laser is the engine in photonic development.The possibility to engineer light in the temporal,spatial and coherence domain makes it possible to address a palette of applications and it has made photonics as important for societal development as electronics was in the 20th century.Nonlinear optics is the complementary field to lasers,which adds additional functionality.It broadens the field of coherent light sources from X-rays to THz,in strengthens modern telecommunication by providing increase in network speed,and it is essential in quantum optics.By spatial structuring of the nonlinear material the spectral,spatial and temporal properties can be tailored.Ferroelectrics are particular attractive in this sense as the nonlinear tensor can be locally addressed by domain engineering.This talk will review the development of solid-state lasers and functional nonlinear optics and forecast future development.