A cladding is provided at an outer periphery of a solid-core doped with
rare earth ions, and a metal layer is formed to be adjacent to the
cladding to provide an optical fiber for a fiber laser device. The metal
layer having an inner metal layer and an outer metal layer is disposed
along an entire length of the optical fiber for a fiber laser device. An
exciting light is incident to the optical fiber for a fiber laser device,
and the exciting light is reflection-excited to emit a high power laser
oscillation light. A monitoring current is constantly flown into the
metal layer. When the disconnection of the optical fiber for a fiber
laser device is detected based on the monitoring current, the
energization of the optical fiber for a fiber laser device is stopped.