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The coating layers of brittle silica optical fibers are essential for their handling and deployment outside the research laboratory. In most applications, standard fibers are coated with thin polymer layers. Monitoring the elastic properties of these layers is important for research and development of new coating materials, production line quality control, reliability testing and preventive maintenance. In addition, elastic parameters of coating layers may be modified following adsorption of chemicals, and their assessment can serve towards sensing applications.