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Numerous cuprate-based superconductors exhibit a complex interplay between spin order, charge order and superconductivity. Light-matter interaction can provide alternate pathways to initiate phase transitions via non-linear drive or by readjusting the energy landscape between competing order parameters. THz time domain spectroscopy is performed on stripe ordered La_2-xBa_xCuO₄ (x = 0.115) to monitor the c-axis Josephson Plasma Resonance (JPR), which acts a direct probe of the superconducting dynamics following near-infrared excitation. After photo-excitation of the superconducting state with 1.55 eV pulses, we observe the emergence of a new long lived metastable state which displays a blue shifted plasma edge. This new phase is suggestive of enhanced c-axis transport not observed in equilibrium and has implications for superconducting fluctuations appearing above T_c in the charge ordered state. We also investigate the mechanism for how the electronic transition at 1.55 eV couples to c-axis vibrational modes which may aid in the superconducting fluctuations above T_c.