Issues with cutting plywood

Hello there, so I have some 5mm sheets of plywood. However my laser only cuts well towards the grain of the wood. If I need to cut perpendicular to that grain it simply don’t even make a mark on the back side. And if I up the power or lower the speed it actually burns the wood and doesn’t make a clean cut. Any tips on how to deal with this?

Use more than one pass of the laser head.

Focus on the middle of the wood, not the top.

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yeah, i’ll try that definitly