Mini-Circuits’ Blue Cell technology allows the use of its 90-degree splitters to enhance the performance of a family of medium power amplifiers. Balanced amplifier configurations offer the improvement of both input and output return loss due to reflections canceling in the hybrid couplers. Amplifier design stability is also more predictable due to each active device being terminated in a 50Ωload. Output power and third order intercept performance are twice that of a single device amplifier. If one half of a balanced amplifier fails, it will still operate with a gain reduction of about 6 dB.

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