The basic principles of new ultrafast all-optical processing devices are experimentally demonstrated. One type of device relies on the interaction between an input signal and two colliding spatial solitons of a different wavelength in a planar waveguide with third order nonlinearity. The devices which belong to the second type are based on second order nonlinear interactions (degenerate difference frequency mixing) and operate as ultrafast sampling gate or as deflector or as phase conjugator. We report in a second part the design and performances of a laser that could be used to trigger the above mentionned systems. The laser cavity has two arms and two separate diode-pumped laser crystals (Nd/YAG). The two laser beams are coherently recombined inside the resonator into a single Gaussian beam. Picosecond pulses emission is ensured by passive mode-locking thanks to a nonlinear mirror set-up.