A distributed amplifier (DA) basing on 0.5 μ m GaAs PHEMT process has been developed.The DA has a measured -3dB bandwidth close to 20GHz
with a transimpedance gain of 46dB Ω .Both the input and output voltage standing wave ratios (VSWR) are less than 2 in the range of 50MHz~16GHz.The noise figure (NF) varies from 3.03 to 6.5dB
whilst the average equivalent input noise current density is about 14.6pA/ Hz .With a timing jitter of 12ps and eye amplitude about 166mV
the measured output eye diagram for 10Gb/s NRZ pseudorandom binary sequence (PRBS) is clear and satisfying.