Patent 11764744 was granted and assigned to Nippon Telegraph and Telephone on September, 2023 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A distributed amplifier includes a first transmission line for input, a second transmission line for output, an input termination resistor connecting a line end of the first transmission line and a power supply voltage, an output termination resistor connecting an input end of the second transmission line and a ground, unit cells having input terminals connected to the first transmission line and output terminals connected to the second transmission line, and a bias tee configured to supply a bias voltage to an input transistor of each of the unit cells. An emitter or source resistor of the input transistor of each of the unit cells is set to a different resistance value from each other in order for a collector or drain current flowing through the input transistor of each of the unit cells to have a uniform value.