Multiphoton production and tests of QED at LEP-II

Data collected by the 4 LEP collaborations from 1995 to 2000 at collision energies ranging from 130 to 208 GeV were used to measure the cross-section of the process e/sup +/e/sup -/ to gamma gamma ( gamma ). QED predictions for this reaction were tested with a few per-cent accuracy and manifestations of physics beyond the standard model (SM) were investigated. Preliminary lower bounds on the cut-off parameter Lambda /sub +or-/, the mass of an excited electron, the string mass scale underlying low-scale quantum gravity and on energy scales expressing various contact interactions were derived.