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This invited plenary contribution presents some of our recent results in the area of optical nonlinear devices. It also briefly reviews the origins and past developments of what became a field of photonics. In conclusion it makes an attempt to suggest where photonics research might be directed in the future, which would truly materialize its inherent pervasiveness.
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