A light source apparatus that generates a light to be supplied to an endoscope, which includes: LEDs (23r, 23g, 23b) of respective colors that emit lights; collimator lenses (24) that receive emitted lights and emit the received lights; and illuminance sensors (27r, 27g, 27b) arranged at positions where the illuminance sensors can receive both of leak lights of the lights emitted from the LEDs (23r, 23g, 23b) of respective colors, which are not used as illumination lights, and lights emitted from the LEDs (23r, 23g, 23b) of respective colors and reflected by the collimator lenses (24). 光を発光する各色LED(23r,23g,23b)と、発光された光を受けて出射するコリメータレンズ(24)と、各色LED(23r,23g,23b)から発光された光の内の照明光としては使用されない漏れ光と、各色LED(23r,23g,23b)から発光されコリメータレンズ(24)により反射された光と、の両方を受光可能な位置に配置された照度センサ(27r,27g,27b)とを備えた、内視鏡に供給する光を発生する光源装置。