  A few recent works suggest the possibility of controlling light propagation
at the interface of periodic multilayers supporting Bloch surface waves (BSWs),
but optical resonators based on BSWs are yet to demonstrate. Here we discuss
the feasibility of exploiting guided BSWs in a ring resonator configuration. In
particular, we investigate the main issues related to the design of these
structures, and we discuss about their limitations in terms of quality factors
and dimensions. We believe these results might be useful for the development of
a complete BSW-based platform for application ranging from optical sensing to
the study of the light-matter interaction in micro and nano structures.

Optics