Ultrafast carrier dynamics caused by photoexcitation in quasi-one-dimensional two-leg ladder cuprate Sr_4Ca_{10}Cu_{24}O_{41} was investigated by the femtosecond reflection spectroscopy. After the photoexcitation along the leg direction, the transient reflectivity changes (Δ R/R) in the mid-infrared region showed instant decrease within 150 fs. The suppressed Δ R/R increased so rapidly on the picosecond time scale that the reflectivity value finally became larger than that in the initial state. Such a successive response in Δ R/R, which was also observed in other photon energy regions, is discussed in terms of ultrafast variation of the Drude weight in the ladder system by the photoirradiation.
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