  Optical excitation typically enhances electrical conduction and low-frequency
radiation absorption in semiconductors. We have, however, observed a pronounced
transient decrease of conductivity in doped monolayer molybdenum disulfide
(MoS2), a two-dimensional (2D) semiconductor, under femtosecond laser
excitation. In particular, the conductivity is reduced dramatically down to
only 30% of its equilibrium value with high pump fluence. This anomalous
phenomenon arises from the strong many-body interactions in the system, where
photoexcited electron-hole pairs join the doping-induced charges to form
trions, bound states of two electrons and one hole. The resultant increase of
the carrier effective mass substantially diminishes the carrier conductivity.
