Composite Biased Rotations for Precise Raman Control of Spinor Matterwaves

Abstract

Precise control of hyperfine matterwaves via Raman excitations is instrumental to a class of atom-based quantum technology. We investigate the Raman spinor control technique for alkaline atoms in an intermediate regime of single-photon detuning where a choice can be made to balance the Raman excitation power efficiency with the control speed, excited-state adiabatic elimination, and spontaneous emission suppression requirements. Within the regime, rotations of atomic spinors by the Raman coupling are biased by substantial light shifts. Taking advantage of the fixed bias angle, we show that composite biased rotations can be optimized to enable precise ensemble spinor matterwave control within nanoseconds, even for multiple Zeeman pseudo-spins defined on the hyperfine ground states and when the laser illumination is strongly inhomogeneous. Our scheme fills a technical gap in light pulse atom interferometry, for achieving high speed Raman spinor matterwave control with moderate laser power.