Pion and kaon pair production in photon-photon collisions

We report measurements of the two-photon processes e-italic/sup +/e/sup -/..-->..e/sup +/e/sup -/..pi../sup +/..pi../sup -/ and e-italic/sup +/e/sup -/..-->..e/sup +/e/sup -/K/sup +/K/sup -/, at an e-italic/sup +/e/sup -/ center-of-mass energy of 29 GeV. In the ..pi../sup +/..pi../sup -/ data a high-statistics analysis of the f-italic(1270) results in a ..gamma gamma.. width GAMMA(..gamma gamma -->..f-italic) = 3.2 +- 0.4 keV. The ..pi../sup +/..pi../sup -/ continuum below the f-italic mass is well described by a QED Born approximation, whereas above the f-italic mass it is consistent with a QCD-model calculation if a large contribution from the f-italic is assumed. For the K-italic/sup +/K/sup -/ data we find agreement of high-mass continuum with the QCD prediction; limits on f-italic'(1520) and t-italich-italice-italict-italica-italic(1720) formation are presented.