  The fidelity of laser-driven quantum logic operations on trapped ion qubits
tend to be lower than microwave-driven logic operations due to the difficulty
of stabilizing the driving fields at the ion location. Through stabilization of
the driving optical fields and use of composite pulse sequences, we demonstrate
high fidelity single-qubit gates for the hyperfine qubit of a
$^{171}\text{Yb}^+$ ion trapped in a microfabricated surface electrode ion
trap. Gate error is characterized using a randomized benchmarking protocol, and
an average error per randomized Clifford group gate of $3.6(3)\times10^{-4}$ is
measured. We also report experimental realization of palindromic pulse
sequences that scale efficiently in sequence length.
