Imprinting Multiple Spin Textures Simultaneously onto a Spinor BEC

Recent theoretical results have fueled interest in the interactions between complex spin textures in BECs such as coreless vortices, skyrmions, and monopoles. We present a method of using a coherent multi-photon Raman process to imprint these intricate textures to a ${}^{87}$Rb BEC. A spatial light modulator is capable of encoding dense spatially-dependent phase and amplitude textures such as higher-order LG modes and multiple singularities. The relative phase and amplitude profile of the beam are transferred to the condensate. This optical method allows the creation of multiple spin textures simultaneously to study their interactions and evolution.