Depositing coatings uniformly around the circumference of fibers at high rate is challenging due to the difficulty in manipulating multiple arrays of the, often fragile, fibers to enable conformal coating and high throughput. Using DVD this process is greatly simplified by using a highly focused vapor flux and non line-of-sight coating conditions. Potential applications for fiber coating include the deposition of metallic alloys on structural fibers to create metal matrix composites, low shear strength coatings on the fibers used to create ceramic matrix composites and the deposition of metals and solid electrolyte thin films for synthesizing solid state fiber batteries. These processes could be used for the deposition of metals on sacrificial fiber templates to create hollow fibers as well.