The invention discloses a feeble pulse optical signal detection device and a detection method thereof. The device comprises a high-sensitivity multiplier phototube, a preamplifier, a high-speed digital signal processor and a computer; the high-speed digital signal processor is divided into a high-speed A/D unit, an automatic threshold value setting unit, a single-photon discrimination output unit, a self-adapting pulse width matched filtering unit, a pulse extraction, positioning and output unit and a demodulation unit; the high-speed digital signal processor realizes the single-photon discrimination and communication signal processing by software. The detection device and the detection method can solve the difficult problems of detecting and extracting the pulse optical signal under the different applied occasions, background noise and pulse distortion; and the device is based on a high-speed DSP chip, has low cost, high integration level, certain intelligence, high sensitivity, strong antinoise capacity, low error rate, a simple structure and light weight, and can be used in detection for modulating the feeble pulse optical signal of the pulse position in free space laser communication.