In this dissertation, different kinds of high voltage power supply as a driving device for a new type of field electron emission light source are designed and evaluated. Various driving circuit topologies including fly-back converter, half-bridge resonant converter, phase shift and voltage multiplication converter are adopted respectively to realize the high voltage driving device. Different load test waveforms including negative voltage, pulse high-voltage and high voltage with disturbance are applied to start and ignite the light source. As a result, the feasibility of the power supply most suitable for driving the flat emission light source is performed and evaluated, and the selected driving circuit topology is then optimized for further application.