Hermetic carbon coatings of various thicknesses in the range from 1 to 100 nm for optical fibers are characterized by confocal Raman spectroscopy and atomic force microscopy. In the course of the research, standard Raman far-field spectra were obtained in the region from 1000 to 2000 cm −1 using 5 individual components: different types of graphite-like and disordered phases. A new spectroscopic indicator is also proposed, which provides a measure of the soot fraction in carbon materials. Studies using the TERS (tip-enhanced Raman scattering) method confirmed the complex structure of the Raman D band of the first order assigned to disordered vibrations of the graphite lattice. In addition, using this method,
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