“…The basic corresponding theoretical models have been developed by Judd [1] and Ofelt [2] for intra-configurational onephoton transitions (see [20] for a recent review) and by Axe [3] for intra-configurational two-photon transitions. The case of two-photon transitions has been the object of further works and extensions : (i) introduction of higher-order mechanisms for intraconfigurational transitions [6,7,9,11], (ii) development of models for inter-configurational transitions [10,12,15,21], and (iii) introduction of symmetry considerations from both a qualitative [4,5] and a quantitative [13,14,18,19,21,22] viewpoint.…”