We have used electric-field-induced Raman scattering to quantitatively assess the effects of carrier screening on the average electric fields in a GaAs-based p-i-n nanostructure semiconductor under the subpicosecond laser photoexcitation. Our experimental results demonstrated that the effects of carrier screening on the average electric field were negligible for photoexcited electron-hole pair density of n less than or equal to 1015 cm-3. As the density of photoexcited carriers increased we observed a significant decrease of the average electric field. In particular, for n equals 1018 cm-3, a decrease of electric field of about 50% was found. All of these experimental results were explained by ensemble Monte Carlo simulations and very good agreement has been obtained.