In a typical multi-kW industrial fiber laser, the influence of the main amplifier to master oscillator power ratio on laser performance has been fully demonstrated. An optimized output power ratio is obtained to be ~5, which can provide the maximum main amplifier slope efficiency of ~78.2% at multi-kW laser output. In this case, the laser setup was kept at ∼2.6kW for 1h and the output power presented a relatively small power degradation of 0.36%. It was found the injected seed power has no remarkable effect on the optimal slope efficiency for industry fiber laser. The present results indicated that a suitable power ratio between the main amplifier and the oscillator is of great importance for the power scaling up and high stability of industry fiber laser.
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