With a capacitor C inserted in an interstage portion of multiple stages of
amplifier circuits, a high pass filter is generated by the capacitor C
and an input impedance |Z| of an amplifier circuit in the next stage.
Accordingly, frequency components lower than a cutoff frequency fc are
cut off, and therefore are not transferred to the subsequent stage.
However, radio frequency components higher than or equal to a fundamental
wave component determined by an envelope of a radio frequency signal
intermittently transmitted can be transferred. Consequently, transfer of
DC offset potentials can be cut off, and noise, such as flicker noise,
having great power in a DC or near-DC zone can be effectively cut off.
Thereby, the S/N ratio, detection sensitivity, and detection accuracy can
be improved.