We investigate the dynamics of excitonic optical absorption in room‐temperature GaAs quantum wells during the application of a rapidly changing electric field in the plane of the quantum well layers. We obtain electroabsorptive modulation with a response time constant of 330 fs, which is the fastest ever reported in a semiconductor.
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